Sadly not an unusual attitude. I've known (and occasionally worked for) people who felt that rules were for chumps. Their reasoning was always a variation on;
"winning is good",
"chumps slow themselves down by following rules",
"in your evaluation at the end of the year the bonuses go to 'winners' not losers."
It is a rather narcissistic perhaps even sociopathic view of the world in my opinion, but it does exist.
Isn't that attitude what 'disruption' culture is all about?
Find a business that takes forever because of regulation, then ignore the regulation, and profit? Uber, that's an example of this. AirBnB in a lot of instances, too, I think.
"winning is good",
"chumps slow themselves down by following rules",
"in your evaluation at the end of the year the bonuses go to 'winners' not losers."
It is a rather narcissistic perhaps even sociopathic view of the world in my opinion, but it does exist.