Jeffrey Skilling, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Jeffrey Skilling comes up
#85 Bethany McLean: Crafting a Narrative
- ▶ 5:53 Bethany McLean But as the dot com bubble began to collapse, people really began to look at what Jeff Skilling, Enron's CEO, was saying about Enron Broadband and say, wait, how can this be true when this is carnage is going on over here?
- ▶ 15:45 Bethany McLean I think a lot of it comes down to the power of personality, and I think Mike Pearson, who, like Jeff Skilling, uh, was a McKinsey alum, had just this incredible intellectual charisma, and for both men, it was somewhat unlikely. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:21 Bethany McLean Jeff Skilling used to say that he liked people with spikes, and what he meant by that was that he didn't like well-rounded, genial, average people. 2 times in the scene
#30 Margaret Heffernan: Collaboration and Competition
- ▶ 33:10 Margaret Heffernan And in the trial of Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay, the judge, Simeon Lake,
- ▶ 46:18 Margaret Heffernan I tend to believe that that's more to do with skilling than with lay, though I may really be letting him off the hook here, you know. 4 times in the scene