What are the stark learnings about ways things can fail, ways that organizations can escalate commitment and be into an area that is actually either unethical or illegal.

You know, maybe follow the the sniff test a little bit.

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But also, what do you look for and and what are the, you know, what are the stark learnings about ways things can fail, ways that, organizations can escalate commitment and and be into an area that is actually either, unethical or illegal. You know, maybe follow the the sniff test a little bit. You know, when I was at Enron, we we, had a a lot of, younger people, and few of us could point to very stark examples where we would help make the company money. And we were probably we were doing big finance projects.

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Lessons from Enron about organizational failure modes. The escalation of commitment concept is a valuable business framework with real-world validation from a major corporate scandal.

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