March 15, 2002

Were They Stupid, Foolish, or Just Plain Cruel?

Is it any coincidence that two books on stupidity have been published just as Enron collapses? We're not going to presume to know the answer to that. But the authors of and contributors to those books have something to say about how a company run by the best and the brightest managed to go bankrupt and rob thousands of employees of their life savings.

Robert J. Sternberg, professor of psychology and education at Yale University and the editor of Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid