Watching PBS show on Jeff Skilling, the main guy behind Enron's corruption and describing his beliefs and showing interviews with him.

Oye is this guy literally my polar opposite. He believes ideas are king. He feels people should be rewarded on ideas alone and execution of those ideas is left for the lesser beings of the world.

It was that philosphy that was Enron's undoing. Their switch to mark to market accounting is based on booking as profit deals as they are pinned. So if you sign a deal that will generate (in theory) $10 billion over 20 years, they'd book all $10 billion up front.  Here in reality, we call that counting chickens before they're hatched.

He also apparently said that only money motivates people which I know for a fact to be untrue. There is a lot more to life than materialism. What motivates one person may not motivate others. 

The PBS show definitely doesn't make Enron's people look very good. If even half of what is in this show is true, we're talking about a bunch of despicable people with Jeff Skilling at that top of the list.