The Importance of Rationality in Decision Making

Some of the drivers were greed. Pride, I think even more than greed sometimes as executives are used to being praised on Wall Street. Fear comes into play as some of the mid level managers who became complicit with the fraud. And then rationalization is humans. We can easily rationalize our decisions. It's just one thing after another that you were like, oh, that's weird. You have to trust your gut instinct. If something doesn't seem or feel quite right, and you have these different disparate data points in your head, right?You have to listen to that instinct. By the end of the audit, we had identified 54 of these quote prepaid capacity entries.