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their thinking became discredited and
pushed aside.”
Vincent Kaminski, a Rice University
business school professor who once
served as managing director of research
for Enron, the company that famously
filed for bankruptcy in 2001 as a result
of reckless business practices, told the
Washington Post a similar story of a
business culture in which aggressive
risk-takers enjoyed too high a status relative
to cautious introverts. Kaminski,
a soft-spoken and careful man, was one
of the few heroes of the Enron scandal.
He repeatedly tried to sound the alarm
with senior management that the company
had entered into business deals
risky enough to threaten its survival.
When the top brass wouldn’t listen, he
refused to sign off on these dangerous
transactions and ordered his team not
to work on them. The company
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