That’s your thesis, and does not represent the thinking of Democrats whose administrations have statistically been better for the economy and whose positions are generally more moderate…but that’s a subject for another thread I suppose.

As a company lawyer I have not once been asked for assistance in finding ways to break the law.

I don’t know about your non-Korean clients, but Korean corporations will obviously never ask a non-Korean lawyer on sensitive matters that might not be legal. To them it is tantamount to hanging out the dirty laundry for all to see.

Check out evolutionary biology. “The Mind of the Market” is worth a read. Its thesis is that businesses must be “moral” in order to survive.

Funny you should mention that. I have indeed already read this book. And it fits my experience with clients, which is that most “corporations” are nothing more than collections of people — good and bad, I guess, but mostly good. Contrary to the thesis of the Democratic Party, I’ve found that most corporations are moral. As a company lawyer I have not once been asked for assistance in finding ways to break the law.

Another tactic is to isolate foreign contractors by having them report to English-speaking low-to-mid level employees on whom they depend for translation. Mid level personnel then sift through and report only the facts that confirm the biases and foregone conclusions of upper management. No dissenting opinions may be expressed and any fact that may contradict the biases of a Dept VP must be purged before reaching said VP.

Brendon, speaking of organizational dynamics, there are significant differences in corporate governance between Samsung and other companies. The social dynamics are also quite difference. Samsung is sort of an abberation in the business world.

Check out evolutionary biology. “The Mind of the Market” is worth a read. Its thesis is that businesses must be “moral” in order to survive. Companies like Enron are the exception, and, as we all know, their unethical practices resulted in eventual collapse. I assessed that Samsung in its present form cannot survive and I was anxious to remove myself from a business environment in which business practices were fundamentally corrupt and substandard and we were instructed to continuously purge documents.

just like the real world. too bad we can’t live in a perfect one.

‘Used to be a director at Samsung? Quite a risk-taker you are, leaving a career job and coming back to the States. Are you an early retiree?’

he seems to like to talk about japan, perhaps he was an exec at toyota.