Responsibility: Them Or Us?
by Miki Saxon
Do you get the feeling that corporate management has gone to hell? That those in positions of power, the folks whose visions we’re supposed to follow, are all crooks?
I have a friend who feels this way, but I don’t.
There are thousands of companies in the US and the majority are led by solid, caring managers who really do their best to do it right. Sure, some do it better than others and some are downright inept, but they aren’t crooks or scam artists.
So where did all the guys in the headlines come from? We know many of them have been around for years or even decades, but few noticed and most didn’t care.
What happened?
I think that the tiny percentage in the news these days are the guys who are 98% bad, but who’ve been previously covered by the other 2% that is comprised of luck, brilliance, or blindness in the peanut gallery.
And of those three saving graces, two are cosmic jokes, but responsibility for the third rests squarely on us—because we went along with it.
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