It was inevitable that the corporate world would wise up and in the past few weeks we've begun to see some of the results of that re-education process.
In fact, observes a wise old corporate hand, the EU referendum will be far more important in deciding whether Heathrow gets the nod.
On this night, which Mr. Moore describes as "the most unfunny day of the year," he and other comedians, including Kevin Meaney and Jim Gaffigan, will crack wise about corporate scandals, economic policy, unemployment -- and, yes, the Internal Revenue Service.
But, of course, as you suggest, those were different times, TV-wise: different corporate structure in the business, different metrics for what constituted a decent-size audience, and so on.
Determining whether political spending is a wise use of corporate money, Mr. DiNapoli argues, meets that test.
And while she finds plenty of inspiring examples of wise governance and corporate responsibility, in many other cases greed and shortsightedness have ruined once-pristine environments, exacerbated human misery and destroyed the spontaneity that once made travel an adventure.
To lead effectively during a crisis, leaders need to have the ability to build trust, change corporate mindset, identify vulnerabilities, make wise and rapid decisions, act courageously, and help promote change (James and Wooten 2004).
And after a century of bad corporate behavior, nearly every world-wise American now knows at a gut level that Monsanto is not to be trusted.
The Myners proposal appears to assume that shareholders are wise enough to prevent corporate excess, in terms of pay packages or risk-taking.
But corporate textbooks present the Constitution as a wise inevitability, awaiting only the Bill of Rights as the icing on a delicious cake of compromise.
