This spark ignited the engine of my renewal, and a long series of executive coaching sessions, workshops and other decidedly non-corporate encounters.
On the evidence of these two memoirs, long careers in broadcast news are sure to produce three things: concern for the future of journalism, friction with corporate owners and encounters with unforgettable characters all over the globe.
Corporate America has encountered similar problems in the past: product recalls; class action suits; structural failures; hazardous wastes.
Yet Venter is even more scathing about the corporate executives he encountered, concluding that for them it was "all about greed and power, not health".
And in the latest twist in pop's relationship with Madison Avenue, the struggling bands making music there will already be encountering corporate America: the studio is being built by Converse, which will let them record free.
In addition to these fundamental human rights, there's even a thriving Lean In movement, inspired by Sheryl Sandberg's book, led by ambitious young women encountering corporate, workplace sexism for the first time.
If so, you have encountered corporate power – the corrupting influence that prevents parties from connecting with the public, distorts spending and tax decisions, and limits the scope of democracy.
It also references the tunnel vision or disorienting effects of being in an actual K-hole as a way to describe our cultural P.O.V. K.M.: Have any of you had any formal business training or 9-to-5 encounters with corporate culture?
I distracted myself by studying a video screen on which FedEx, the sponsor of Space Mountain, was pitching itself on a futurist theme -- the first of many unctuous corporate plugs I would encounter.
There, in a glass case in the boardroom of his company Haier was a sledgehammer, not something you normally encounter in corporate surroundings.
Even more so when I compared it to the other corporate folk I'd encountered that day.
