{"id":1300,"date":"2005-04-24T12:51:52","date_gmt":"2005-04-24T12:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2005-04-24T12:51:52","modified_gmt":"2005-04-24T12:51:52","slug":"alliant_energys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1300","title":{"rendered":"Alliant Energy’s Erroll Davis on Humility in the NYT"},"content":{"rendered":"

as told to Eve Tahmincioglu<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Enron made me very angry. We are all paying a tremendous price for the screw-up.<\/p>\n

These are powerful positions we executives hold. I have $8 billion<\/b> at my disposal. We don’t have that many checks and balances on us. You can lose perspective and start to think you’re royalty. I think of these guys with their $10,000 shower curtains and I say to myself: “I could understand how they could do that.” But I also understand why you shouldn’t.<\/p>\n

If you lose track of where you came from – and surprisingly, a lot of these people came from humble beginnings – you lose track of your moral compass, what work means to the average employee. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Davis’s Wisconsin based Alliant Energy has been in some hot water over investments in Brazil<\/a> and a Mexican resort<\/a>. Interesting to see this in the NY Times. I wonder if this piece was “placed” by a pr firm?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

as told to Eve Tahmincioglu: Enron made me very angry. We are all paying a tremendous price for the screw-up. These are powerful positions we executives hold. I have $8 billion at my disposal. We don’t have that many checks and balances on us. You can lose perspective and start to think you’re royalty. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}