My experience of working with global corporations, including at times BP, is that no one below board level has time for greed – they are just trying to hang on to their jobs and keep swimming in a torrent of bureaucratic sewage. It never fails to amaze me that the multinationals ever get anything done at all. I wouldn’t mind betting that the guy in charge of Deepwater Horizon spent most of his time wading through 80-page contracts from lawyers, purchasing people, consultants or some other leeches, and had no idea that something was going horribly wrong 5,000 feet below him. Greed? I very much doubt that crossed his mind. Cock up? – yes probably.
A true reflection of how it is. Via bobjob21, who comments in this post.
