Corruption in both business and government is a constant risk. Governments bureaucracies stress consistent responses and they work hard to avoid risk. This can result in organizations that care more about following rules than accomplishing their mission. Government agencies are chronically underfunded, so they frequently don't have eithe…
Corruption in both business and government is a constant risk. Governments bureaucracies stress consistent responses and they work hard to avoid risk. This can result in organizations that care more about following rules than accomplishing their mission. Government agencies are chronically underfunded, so they frequently don't have either the people or the technology to do what their enabling legislation mandates. Business corruption is a little different. In business, ever-increasing profit can become an obsession, overshadowing everything else. Businesses stop making money because they provide superior products and services; they shift to extracting the maximum profit from their sales in a never-ending cycle of labor exploitation and product degradation. Boeing Corp. could be an example here.
Well no, I'm not talking about America or most developed countries, today. I'm pointing out what happens when the leaders and their regime are quite obviously corrupt- and what happens to institutions, and government agencies under a corrupt government. What happens to everyday business under a corrupt regime. It trickles down into e everyday life.
Agreed. I've had some interviews with "Big Men" in Nigeria, and with some princelings in the Middle East. The thing I came away with is that in their culture, what we think of as corruption is, to them, the normal and necessary process of doing business. For that matter, in the US we say that contributions to PACs and certain nonprofits are legal, when it's quite clear that they are intended to purchase the votes of legislators. Maybe it's easier, at least for me, to see corruption when someone else is doing it.
When corruption and lawlessness from the top is accepted, it becomes normal in society itself.
What we regard as "shithole" countries.
Any country, even the USA, can use the window dressing of democracy - while it's government is completely corrupt, lawless. Such countries rot from within, society follows suit.
Corruption in both business and government is a constant risk. Governments bureaucracies stress consistent responses and they work hard to avoid risk. This can result in organizations that care more about following rules than accomplishing their mission. Government agencies are chronically underfunded, so they frequently don't have either the people or the technology to do what their enabling legislation mandates. Business corruption is a little different. In business, ever-increasing profit can become an obsession, overshadowing everything else. Businesses stop making money because they provide superior products and services; they shift to extracting the maximum profit from their sales in a never-ending cycle of labor exploitation and product degradation. Boeing Corp. could be an example here.
Well no, I'm not talking about America or most developed countries, today. I'm pointing out what happens when the leaders and their regime are quite obviously corrupt- and what happens to institutions, and government agencies under a corrupt government. What happens to everyday business under a corrupt regime. It trickles down into e everyday life.
Agreed. I've had some interviews with "Big Men" in Nigeria, and with some princelings in the Middle East. The thing I came away with is that in their culture, what we think of as corruption is, to them, the normal and necessary process of doing business. For that matter, in the US we say that contributions to PACs and certain nonprofits are legal, when it's quite clear that they are intended to purchase the votes of legislators. Maybe it's easier, at least for me, to see corruption when someone else is doing it.
When corruption and lawlessness from the top is accepted, it becomes normal in society itself.
What we regard as "shithole" countries.
Any country, even the USA, can use the window dressing of democracy - while it's government is completely corrupt, lawless. Such countries rot from within, society follows suit.
Russia is an example.