The modern corporation depends for its effectiveness in
producing and selling its product – that is, its ability to win external
submission - on the quality of its internal organization, which is to say the
extent and depth of the submission of its employees. This is not
comprehensively urgent in the bottom ranks of the enterprise; there a
sufficient submission can be had by the routine exercise of compensatory power…
The position changes markedly as one proceeds to the upper executive ranks.
There full subordination to the purposes of the firm is essential. Expression
or action in conflict with corporate purpose is unthinkable. No senior
executive would presume to suggest that the cigarettes his company manufactures
cause cancer, that its automobiles are unsafe, that its pharmaceuticals are
medically suspect. Or that some political initiative sought by the company is
in conflict with public interest. It is on such internal discipline, no less
than the British army in
India,
that external power depends. High salaries are collected for such submission, …
On 3/20/2014
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