This is one more reason why I think Frank Herbert's comparison of the corporate hierarchy to the feudal hierarchy is apt. In both hierarchies, leaders in a situ

This is one more reason why I think Frank Herbert's comparison of the corporate hierarchy to the feudal hierarchy is apt. In both hierarchies, leaders in a situation where they are high performers are almost always morally grey. Our progress is chiefly that our leaders, at both the national and local level, once resembled villains in Game of Thrones. Now, our national leaders resemble James Bond villains. [1] Corporate and local leaders resemble villains in Grisham books, just with a lower murder rate. At the corporate and local levels, lives are still destroyed, but not necessarily with literal bloodshed. [1] -- Even Obama resembles a James Bond villain, with his exploding missile sky robots. He's just one of the good looking, smooth ones. Trump and Putin are a different kind of Bond villain.