Hi Pete, Just to extract one paragraph from yours.
At 14:24 27/02/02 -0800, you wrote: (PV) <<<< The current corporate culture is now so bereft of a sense of social responsibility that an entire entity like Enron can be so corrupted that noone on the inside was moved to object to their manoeuverings, many of which were within the bounds of permissible corporate behaviour. >>>> You can't anathematise the whole of corporate culture with the same ethos that overtook Enron. There are tens of thousands of multinational corporations whose ethics range from the decent to the criminal -- just like the general population. Over here, many large companies have expressed deep concern about Enron's behaviour and are pressing for radical changes in accountants' rules. And you are quite wrong that "that no-one on the inside [of Enron] was moved to object to their manoeuverings". You've obviously forgotten about Sherron Watkins, whose candour and courage in trying to expose this 18 months ago is praiseworthy. She didn't stop Jeffrey Skilling's behaviour at the time, but she tried. Keith __________________________________________________________ “Writers used to write because they had something to say; now they write in order to discover if they have something to say.” John D. Barrow _________________________________________________ Keith Hudson, Bath, England; e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________
