From Kidder Peabody, we learned to never buy a company with a culture that didn’t match ours. From the bribery case, we learned that policies age and even die unless managers work constantly to keep them alive. After a crisis is over, there is always the tendency to want to put it away in a drawer. Don’t. Use a crisis for all it’s worth. Teach its lessons every chance you get. In doing so, you’ll spread the immunity.
