Enron - "The smartest guy in the room"
One of the individuals interviewed in the film states: “You wanted to be the most popular guy on Wall Street and you would do whatever you had to do to stay there.” She says that existed a “high school mythology” at Enron. What does she mean? How did Lay’s and Skilling’s backgrounds feed into their desire to belong and to be seen as successful and popular? How did the quest to belong interfere with behaving ethically?