Executive Summary

• Companies can become corrupt due to changes in leadership and values.
• Structure plays a significant role in determining a company’s incorruptibility.
• Transforming existing companies into incorruptible ones is a challenging task.

The Buzz Score

The Internet’s Verdict: 60% Hyped, 40% Skeptical

Forum Insights

Many experts believe that companies can become corrupt when their values and mission change over time. As one expert notes,

My biggest struggle with this question is that ‘going bad’ sometimes coincides with not just financial incentives, but also more people getting value out of it.

Another expert points out that

It will be interesting to see how many of those companies remain ‘incorruptible’. Your new book seems a bit like a sequel to Jim Collins’s 2001 book Good to Great.

Transforming Companies

Transforming existing companies into incorruptible ones is a difficult task. As one expert notes,

Eric – I’ve worked for NASA, ATT, IBM, HP, Amazon, and Google, not to mention a couple of startups that I started in between. None of them (except the startups, but they were brief) stayed true to their original mission.

Focus Keyword: Incorruptible Business