Just for fun, imagine you’re running a gigantic multinational corporation with more than 118,000 employees. You can’t possibly be responsible for every little thing that goes wrong in all your divisions and subsidiaries. So the question is: where exactly is the tipping point at which you must accept fundamental responsibility for problems that occur on your watch?
When Does the Buck Stop?
Just for fun, imagine you’re running a gigantic multinational corporation with more than 118,000 employees. You can’t possibly be responsible for every little thing that goes wrong in all your divisions and subsidiaries. So the question is: where exactly is the tipping point at which you must accept fundamental responsibility for problems that occur on […]
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