----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Perelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Bryce, Robert. 2002. Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, Jealousy and the Death of > Enron with What Went Wrong at Enron Today (PublicAffairs). > 222: "Skilling was able to convince a nearly constant parade of reporters > that Enron's trading business was invincible. Other companies were going > to explode as Enron figured out how to buy and sell every part of an > individual company's traditional business. Enron was going to > intermediate everything, commoditize everything. Just as Ford Motor > Company didn't have to own the steel mill to build cars, Enron was going > to speed the breakup of business in the world into its individual parts. > "We believe that markets are the best way to order or organize an > industrial enterprise, " Skilling told the Financial Times in June 2000. > "You are going to see the deintegration (sic) of the business systems we > have all grown up with." Durgin and Skinner, "Inside Track: The Guru of > Decentralisation." ==================== Which is why Harvard Business School is a greater threat to capitalism, on its own terms, than any English Dept. ever could be. Ian
