Organizations and Markets

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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