WorldCom, and Tyco—plus the other “usual suspects”—
were not mere symbols of corporate greed and malfeasance.
Bad leadership at Enron alone impoverished thousands
of employees, stealing their livelihoods, gutting their
retirement accounts, and tearing them apart with stress. (I
was informed recently that the total dollar cost to investors
and pensioners was over $80 billion.) There are, no doubt,
people who took their own lives because of what was done
at Enron by its lavishly compensated bad leaders.