Imagine you are an energy company exec in November 2001 and someone offers you the job of replacing Jeff Skilling at Enron now that the financial problems have

Imagine you are an energy company exec in November 2001 and someone offers you the job of replacing Jeff Skilling at Enron now that the financial problems have been exposed and it is starting to enter free-fall mode. Do you take the job so that you can have President of Enron on your CV? The people who are qualified for the job or would be even considered in the first place are likely to be in one of two career trajectories at the moment: aiming upward to become the CEO of a major corporation or on a downward path and trying to maintain the power, respect, and lifestyle to which they have become accustomed. People in the former category would avoid Uber like the plague, so you are looking for someone in the latter group who is talented enough to catch a falling knife but somehow overlooked by companies making a similar search but not quite as desperate as Uber happens to be at the moment. Tough order to fill...