Part of the issue, DIckey, is that you believe profitability to be the sole criterion for an organization's effectiveness. This is the kind of blindered analysis that makes for corporate greed, white-collar crime, and bad television. In supporting this "one good" idea of the purpose of companies, you are subscribing to these values. The most profitable comapnies I know personally share a different value: to make a group of people who are both profitable and happy, and who do something of value for the world.

Every time GM has failed it is because they went cross-eyed on this balance of intentions.

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