I just read an article in Network World. Mark Gibbs writes in his "Backspin" back page editorial that all corporations are
clinically insane
. Interesting reading.
From the article;
In law a corporation is an individual similar to you or me. When you compare the behavior and characteristics of publicly held, large corporations to the diagnostic criteria of the World Health Organization and those of DSM-IV, a standard psychiatric diagnostic tool, you find that these organizations are effectively psychopathic .
Most importantly, this isn't an attribute of one or two large corporations; it applies to the majority worldwide. Even more profoundly, it appears to be the inescapable fate of public corporations because their essential function is to be profit-making machines that relegate all other functions and attributes (social, cultural, political, technological and economic roles) to a distant second place. Essentially, the end (profits) will always justify the means (whatever it takes) because that is how corporations are defined.
