When I was a kid, I shoveled snow to make a few dollars. One time, a friend and I did a driveway for a grumpy old neighbor. We pooped out before all the snow was gone, and when we asked to be paid, the old man refused. "You don't finish, I don't pay," he said. We skulked off. But those were the rules of the marketplace. You wanna get paid, you gotta do the job. Simple enough, right? Apparently not in corporate America, where CEOs regularly leave their companies in no better shape than when they got there, yet walk...