• • In Their Own Words: Leadership Lessons From Lay, Kozlowski, Ebbers 
Dan Bigman, Forbes Atlas Shrugged  |The Fountainhead  |Individualism  | [Lessons From The Top is] a reminder that often, the most visionary, and hyped, leaders turn out to be completely filled with crap. There’s [Dennis Kozlowski] Kozlowski, who became the poster boy for 90s-era greed and excess. Convicted in 2005 for swiping millions from Tyco International and was sentenced to 8 to 25 years in state prison. Here he’s talking up Ayn Rand as the basis for his success. [....] “In college, I read Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged and then I read them again in my late twenties. Those books had an influence on me. They really focus on the contribution that the individual can make. Individuals do make a difference.”   Published: 2012-12-27