Gladwell on Enron
7 January 2007 at 6:01 pm Clifford Grammich 1 comment
| Cliff Grammich |
Something more germane, perhaps: Malcolm Gladwell on Enron in the January 8th issue of The New Yorker.
For Gladwell, the key question of the Enron debacle was whether it was a “puzzle,” from which somebody responsible deliberately withheld information, or a “mystery” for which culpability is much more difficult to determine. (Gladwell thinks it better treated as a “mystery.”)
This is at least the second time Gladwell has written on Enron at length; earlier, he used the company as an example to ask “are smart people overrated,” and to laud the benefits of the organizational system of P&G.
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Peter Klein | 7 January 2007 at 9:54 pm
Quite a bit of back-and-forth between Gladwell and Brad DeLong on their respective blogs. Here’s a starting point:
http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2007/01/malcolm_gladwel.html