Seriously? Ford Corporate and you laughing??
Are you too young to remember the Ford Pinto scandal?
Executive and Integrity are mutually exclusive terms.
I remember it well - though I was pretty young at the time. Regardless, I reject the narrative that Executive and Integrity are mutually exclusive. I'm, in fact, pretty certain that most people around here (and there are always exceptions, but you can say that about any group of people) actually do act with integrity. My own thinking is that screwing the customer or the public in general isn't just bad karma, it's a path to bankruptcy. But then, we've been burned a few times, both by the market and by legal issues. It might just be that the leadership here and now was conditioned by those bad past experiences (consider that one of the things you need to display to get a leadership position around here is a record of pushing back on leadership) , in which case, it's probably time for a shakeup at VW.
I'd add, I don't think its any different for anyone else. The human animal seems to step easily from prosperity to hubris. Once an individual stops owning his BS and believing it instead, he's headed for a fall. It's a perpetual war for your soul, which is why I love AH, even though I couldn't hit anything last night (my gunnery sucks some times).
