...badly

"Surely you desire truth in the inner parts; you teach me wisdom in the inmost place" Psalm 51:6

In 1996, Kenneth Lay made a comment in a book entitled, Business as Mission. 

"In my own case, I grew up the son of a Baptist minister. 

From this background, I was fully exposed to not only legal behavior, but moral and ethical behavior, and what that means from the standpoint of leading organizations and people. 

I was, and am, a strong believer that one of the most satisfying things in life is to create a highly moral and ethical environment in which every individual is allowed and encouraged to realize their God-given potential. There are few things more satisfying than to see individuals reach levels of performance that they would have thought was virtually impossible for themselves."

Something went very wrong from the time Kenneth Lay wrote those words and the time he was convicted June 6, 2006. 

Strangely, Lay never went to prison because he died suddenly of a heart attack a few months after being convicted. 

No one is immune from starting life well and ending it badly. 

Kenneth Lay was the chairman and CEO of Enron.

-os hillman