19-06-2010, 03:02 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b6J7LRUTFY
The clip is crisp and professionally shot, a surprise hit on YouTube
and Facebook. But this is no music video, nor is it a new comedy hit.
Rather, this is BP's chief executive, Tony Hayward, fresh-faced and
relaxed in blue jacket and open-necked shirt, addressing students of
Stanford's elite business graduate school.
It was 2007 and Hayward, newly ensconced at the helm of
BP, planned the speech to signal the course of his stewardship of the
British oil giant. BP, said the upbeat Englishman, had just finished a
"difficult, critical but necessary self assessment".
The diagnosis?
"We had too many people that were working to save the
world." A studied pause and Hayward returned to his theme: "We'd lost
track of the fact that our primary purpose is to create value for our
shareholders. How you do that is you need to take care of the world ?
but our primary purpose in life was not to save the world."
http://www.smh.com.au/business/lost-at-s...-ymrt.html
The clip is crisp and professionally shot, a surprise hit on YouTube
and Facebook. But this is no music video, nor is it a new comedy hit.
Rather, this is BP's chief executive, Tony Hayward, fresh-faced and
relaxed in blue jacket and open-necked shirt, addressing students of
Stanford's elite business graduate school.
It was 2007 and Hayward, newly ensconced at the helm of
BP, planned the speech to signal the course of his stewardship of the
British oil giant. BP, said the upbeat Englishman, had just finished a
"difficult, critical but necessary self assessment".
The diagnosis?
"We had too many people that were working to save the
world." A studied pause and Hayward returned to his theme: "We'd lost
track of the fact that our primary purpose is to create value for our
shareholders. How you do that is you need to take care of the world ?
but our primary purpose in life was not to save the world."
http://www.smh.com.au/business/lost-at-s...-ymrt.html
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." Karl Marx
"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.
"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.
“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.