[nemothekid]

Key word "performing". If you want feel warm feelings about your heroes, don't make your heros CEOs who are ultimately judged on how large of a return they can give their shareholders.

[jjulius]

>... CEOs who are ultimately judged on how large of a return they can give their shareholders.

At first, sure. The more time passes, however, the less CEOs are judged solely on monetary returns.

Hell, IMO, to judge a CEO solely on monetary returns in the present is selective reasoning at best.