Furthermore, I doubt that the lack of ‘transparency’ was entirely accidental. At least since Enron, the management of large enterprises has become adept at encouraging or subtly
coercing its employees to do what it takes to get the desired results, while they remain nominally unaware of what is being done.
They're not stupid. What do you expect them to do? Being transparent clearly comes with risk and 2020 clearly increases risk. To not insulate against that would be to not do their jobs. You get what you incentivize.
For starters, display good leadership traits like accountability, including to themselves. I'm worried the signal we're sending right now is that weak leadership traits are rewarded which incentivizes weak leaders.
I think we're saying the same thing. My point is that such weak leadership should at least be dis-incentivized. There's plenty of ways to do so from fines, to jail time, to making the individuals industry pariahs. We incentivize what we value; it seems like we may be valuing money over character.
Who are 'them'? The executives of these companies? Yes, of course some of them will act this way at least some of the time, and the question is what do we do, if we don't like it? We have some options, such as preferring candidates who favor stronger accountability and effective protection of whistle-blowers, and who are opposed to installing, as the political appointees heading the regulatory bodies such as the FAA, people to whom these executives can go to to get pressure applied to the professional regulators to back off their objections to what is going on. We can also support responsible investigative journalism by subscribing to it.
So, yeah, I'm not expecting things to improve anytime soon.
