This new “free market” focus, however, led to a distorted emphasis on profits and to serious accounting abuses, resulting in well-known business failures around the turn of the millennium (e.g. the bursting of the dot com bubble, the Enron scandal, the early twenty-first century financial crisis, etc.). One explanation is that responsible executives, who had been trained in scientific technology, often lacked interpersonal skills, practical judgement and even moral foundations (Bennis and O’Toole, 2005).