Why Corporate Corruption Is so Common

The truth is, we're all one acquisition, one IPO, one board meeting away from watching something we love turn into something we hate. But we lack the vocabulary to call it what it really is. "Mission drift" sounds like a navigation error. "Bureaucracy" sounds like paperwork. Neither captures the gut punch of betrayal when something precious is corroded beyond recognition.

So, I call it by a simple, old-fashioned name: corruption.

I'm willing to bet you've felt it yourself in your own life and career. Maybe it was the day your favorite company killed the product you loved. Or when your own company canceled its innovation projects to help "make the quarter." Or when you watched helplessly as the "professional CEO" brought in to replace the founder drove the company into the ground. Or when leadership changed, and the mission became just words on a website.

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