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We held a Corporate Governance and Accountability Forum in February 2002 involving prominent leaders from the public, private and not-for-profit sectors to discuss the recent accountability failures in the private sector and what actions may be necessary to help prevent such failures in the future.
You learn it by successes and failures."
To be precise, Woodruff asked what lessons Bush took from the successes and failures of Acheson and George Marshall.
Besides, blaming consultants for companies' failures seems, in the end, to be beside the point.
Here I'm thinking of Mark Lindquist in the Times Book Review ("while Ethan Coen [qua screenwriter] isn't quite as stylish with language as his brother is with a camera, he does have a distinctive voice and an offbeat worldview") or Renee Graham in the Boston Globe ("As with his films, his failures are often almost as interesting as other writers' successes."