
75LAW #1: TELL THE TRUTH
More accurately, perhaps, it would be one small step down a very
dark path. In his treatise on the nature of evil, People of the Lie,
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psychiatrist and author M. Scott Peck makes the point that people
are seldom born evil or become so all at once. More often it is a
gradual journey where one step toward darkness is followed by an-
other until there is no turning back.
It would not be surprising to learn that Lay and Skilling, along
with many of the 2002 gang of CEOs who were accused of wrongdo-
ing, had slipped down similar slopes. The question for all of us to
ask ourselves is, ‘‘Am I on any kind of slope that would lead me ...