We agree that remuneration and bonuses need to be tied to the long-term success of the business and not for rewarding foolhardy risk-taking or flash-in-the-pan results.
But in truth, you can say the same of Wall Street — it won't learn any lessons, either, until firms that took foolhardy risks start to fail.
The most vivid section recounts Nylen's time in Vietnam: grenades pop, snipers fire, and fear, blood, foolhardy risks and the joy at surviving near-death experiences animate each page.
Until Saturday, though, his coach, Glen Mills, cautioned against expecting Bolt to run the 100 in Beijing, saying it might be foolhardy to risk a chance at winning a gold medal at 200 meters by trying to double in the shorter race.
Folie a Deux – the psychiatric term for "shared psychosis" – would be an equally apt title for the C4 stalwart fantasy home Grand Designs, where couples egg each other on, collude, are complicit in each other's foolhardy approach to risk.
Even if one was foolhardy enough to risk being raided -- which was practically guaranteed -- there was no getting around the journey itself, which entailed five days of arduous travel, two of them without a break, across nothing but sand.
It would be foolhardy for demonstrators to risk the territory's uniqueness in a Quixotic attempt to force Beijing to accept in Hong Kong what it used force to suppress in the rest of China.
He is sometimes foolhardy and wrong-headed, risking his life and the lives of others for trifles.
People spoke of not allowing terrorists to run their lives, but then suggested it would be foolhardy to take unnecessary risks.
