The Lessons of Worldcom: What Business Managers Need to Know about Business and Human Nature
This paper takes a look at how human nature's impulse towards greed and wanton self-interest can lead towards devastating and corrupt business decisions. The paper focuses on the downfall of Worldcom and suggests lessons that future business managers can take away from the debacle. The paper also explores the shadowy and secretive decision-making that pervaded Worldcom at the executive level and how this secrecy sowed the seeds for future tragedy