A doctrinaire Ayn-Rand-ian got control of Sears a few years ago and tried it: http://www.alternet.org/economy/ayn-rand-sears-and-eddie-lampert http://www.altern

A doctrinaire Ayn-Rand-ian got control of Sears a few years ago and tried it: http://www.alternet.org/economy/ayn-rand-sears-and-eddie-lampert http://www.alternet.org/economy/ayn-rand-sears-and-eddie-lam... Didn't work out too well. Some units needed to work together for the organization as a whole to function -- but being forced to compete against each other for corporate resources gave them incentives to sabotage each other instead, and the overall bottom line suffered greatly.