Sadly, the creation of much more relevant training to better equip workers has fallen prey to the insatiable quest for yet more corporate profit.
Still, the sweetened bid may mark a brewing bidding war for Quest, a maker of software for corporate server administrators, months after it agreed to sell itself to Insight in March.
Its resonances with contemporary themes are clear: what the corporate quest for television ratings was in the nineteen-seventies, the quest for clicks and social-media "likes" is today.
"The studies in this book present evidence that the quest for growth in GDP and corporate profits has in fact worsened the lives of millions of men and women," Kim and two of his co-authors wrote in the introduction.
In an introduction to a 2000 book called "Dying for Growth", he wrote that "the quest for growth in GDP and corporate profits has in fact worsened the lives of millions of men and women", quoted Noam Chomsky and praised Cuba for "prioritising social equity".
Kim had written in the book that "the quest for growth in GDP and corporate profits has in fact worsened the lives of millions of women and men".
"The studies in this book present evidence that the quest for growth in GDP and corporate profits has in fact worsened the lives of millions of women and men," he wrote.
The book, "Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic C.E.O.'s" (Princeton University Press, $29.95), argues that company directors rely too much on social connections when choosing a chief executive from outside, even when their companies face serious trouble.
But by hiring Capellas, WorldCom may be repeating a classic mistake, says Rakesh Khurana Rakesh Khurana, a Harvard Business School professor and author of Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs.
