For those worried this is asset-stripping or profit-at-all costs, performance targets for academies could justify these changes".
But the assumption in Britain and around the world was that Diamond created a culture at Barclays that encouraged the profit-at-all-costs mind-set that led to the scandal.
The move by Cerberus is a rare instance of a Wall Street firm bending to concerns about an investment's societal impact rather than a profit-at-all-costs ethos.
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI called Tuesday for a new world financial order guided by ethics and the search for the common good, denouncing the profit-at-all-cost mentality blamed for bringing about the global financial meltdown.
The NUJ's general secretary, Jeremy Dear, argues that "Murdoch's profit-at-all-costs philosophy forces too many journalists to cut corners, compromise professional standards and set aside ethical conduct", a journalistic model that "is not in the public interest".
Values-based sport is the antidote to a win-at-all-costs, profit-at-all-costs, out-of-control sports culture.
Once again, as is the case with virtually every contemporary sports issue, the reason for this problem is WAAC and PAAC: win-at-all-costs and profit-at-all-costs thinking.
It's these win-at-all-costs (WAAC) and profit-at-all-costs (PAAC) coaches and administrators that need to be weeded out of the youth and high school sports scene.
The calcified, bureaucratic, left-brain, profit-at-all-costs, destructive model of the 20th century industrial age must transform to meet the demands of the interconnected, whole-brain, transparent, socially-responsible and sustainable 21st century information age.
Journalism, in other words, is a costly and paradoxical enterprise: it can flourish only when profitable, but it is most suspect when it seeks a profit at all costs.
But Bezos says zShops probably won't be any more profitable than his main lines and that his bold expansion isn't about profits at all.
