[techweenie]

There's a book in the Sears story. They put a CEO in charge who was a huge fan of Ayn Rand and decided the best corporate disciplines would come from 'objectivism' so he basically pitted all the divisions against each other. It's a real horror story, with employees making overt efforts to sabotage their peers' divisions... and the loser was the customer.

At Sears, Eddie Lampert's Warring Divisions Model Adds to the Troubles - Businessweek