“But most folks who joke about CEOs would collapse into a puddle of tears if they shouldered the burdens of these leaders.”
People who could never do those jobs, who will never get close to those jobs will insist the people doing them are idiots. The oldest story in business.
Or that they're simply criminals.
-Allen Stanford (Stanford International Bank)
-Bernard Ebbers (WorldCom)
-Bernard Madoff (Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities)
-Dennis Kozlowski (Tyco)
-Eddie Antar (Crazy Eddie)
-Elizabeth Holmes (Theranos)
-Jeffrey Skilling (Enron)
-Jonathan Rigas (Adelphia)
-Joseph Nacchio (Qwest)
-Martha Stewart (Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia)
-Martin L. Grass (Rite-Aid)
-Martin Shkreli (MSMB Healthcare)
-Rajat Gupta (McKinsey & Company)
-Rebekah Brooks (News International)
-Richard Scrushy (HealthSouth)
-Samuel Bankman-Fried (FTX)
-Samuel D. Waksal (ImClone Systems)
-Sanjay Kumar (Computer Associates)
-Walter Forbes (Cendant)