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John Wareham, the author of the book has a long history of helping corrupted individuals.
Here's his open letter to Ken Lay, for example:
(http://www.eaglesusa.org/news.php)
Open Letter to Ken Lay
From John Wareham / Eagles President
How to Create a Whole New Image
Dear Ken:
Enron’s good name is forever lost, but the right set of strategies could redeem your own. Since the mission of the Eagles Foundation is to help rebuild the shattered lives of ex-offenders, perhaps you'll be excuse us suggesting that you resolve to:
1. Dismiss the advice of your lawyers and public relations advisors. They don’t care about your reputation or your character. They just want to earn handsome fees by showing "plausible deniability" and sparing you the so-called stigma of prison time. But staying out of jail will only obliterate the remnants of your reputation, and you with it.
2. Admit to yourself that you fell into the triangle of compromise—the three sides of which are need, opportunity, and excuse. Your neediness made you avaricious; the opportunity to tilt the board proved altogether too tempting; and you’re still attempting to make excuses. Reflect upon how your neediness became ungovernable, why it’s important to resist temptation, and how pleading the 5th Amendment makes you feel rotten.
3. Confess your guilt to the world. Any more self-serving excuses will merely secure your dissembler status in the business hall of infamy. So bite the bullet and admit to knowing what you were doing. Call a press conference and tell everyone that, yes, you knew you were cheating; that, yes, you knew that your chief financial officer was cooking the books; that, yes, you consciously chose to encourage these nefarious activities—and countless others—by looking the other way. You were a decent person who succumbed to tempation—not a merely a fool and a dupe, right? Of course. And all that matters now is to rescue your true self.
4. Go to jail. Spend real time in a real prison. Seek at least a five-year term. In case the idea makes you quaver let me share a secret: there’s more courtesy and kindness—and love—in a prison than in most corporations. So the sentence itself will seem like a special gift. You’ll meet wonderful people and you’ll know you’ve done the right and decent thing. Your self-esteem, which has taken a terrible beating, will start to heal. As that happens you’ll feel a lightening in both your step and your heart. When your time is up you’ll feel—and be—a totally authentic individual.
5. Become a real leader. You always wanted to be a leader, and now, suddenly, the world will willingly assign you that role. Real men, both in and out of jail, will admire your gutsiness in coming clean and serving real time in a tough institution. Now, when you hold your head up high and talk of integrity you won’t suffer all those terrible feelings of guilt, anxiety and phoniness that sent you sailing off into the triangle of compromise in the first place.
6. Vow to make a dramatic, long-term difference upon your release. Now it will be within your power to effect dramatic changes within the business community. So get onto the lecture circuit and all those talking head shows and use your newly acquired patina of moral authority to expose hypocrisy and transform the way business is done. Inspire crooked executives to reform. Make accountants feel accountable again. Make auditors want to audit. Press lawyers to stop counseling their clients to act like thieves. The level of trust among investors will soar, stocks will recover their value, and the public will love you.
7. Resolve to remain realistic. Don’t let your new image for integrity go to your head. Sure, write a book on virtues, but be more than merely a condemning pontificator or zealot. Never forget that your newfound authority has sprung from your human frailty. Make the effort to understand and help those who go off the rails, and, of course, donate your royalties and speaking fees to charity.
So, then, Ken, let us wish you a truly happy new year, along with the emotional and spiritual prosperity that will surely follow from having your wife and children look upon you as a man who succumbed to temptation, but discovered himself in the process, ultimately making good on his promise—so beautifully presented in the Enron 64-page Code of Ethics—to be an honest and moral man.
Sincerely
John Wareham
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