VW’s culture of blind obedience: What went wrong and how to fix it

<!-- Ira >--</p> <div class="row-fluid"> <div class="span1"></div> <div class="span10"> <p>Just appeared on MSNBC.com – How Intelligent Disobedience applies to the VW cheating scandal.</p> <hr style="border-width: 1px; border-color: #08c;"> </div> <div class="span1"></div> </div> <p><!-- END OF Ira >--</p> <p><!-- Header >--</p> <div class="row-fluid"> <div class="span1"></div> <div class="span5"> <h4>By <a href="http://irachaleff.com/wp/about-ira-ch..." target="_blank">Ira Chaleff</a> <br />Published September 26, 2015</h4> </p></div> <div class="span5"> <a href="http://msnbc.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.irachaleff.com/wp/wp-conte..." class="grouped_elements" rel="tc-fancybox-group3569" alt="msnbc-logo-card-twitter" width="828" height="150" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-3616" /></a> </div> <div class="span1"></div> </div> <p><!-- END OF Header >--</p> <p><!-- Body#1 >--</p> <div class="row-fluid" style="text-align: justify;"> <div class="span1"></div> <div class="span10"> <p>[…] The CEO of the Volkswagen holding company — now the former CEO having been appropriately forced to resign — did not install the “defeat devices” that hid the fact of emissions five- to 40-times higher than allowed by U.S. law. The “company,” a legal construct, did not install those devices. Employees, software engineers...</p></div></div><!-- Body#1 ><!-- END OF Header ><!-- Header ><!-- END OF Ira ><!-- Ira >