CEO Speeches: Talking our way to disaster (BP & DeepWater Horizon)

In April, 2010, BP CEO Tony Hayward reassured shareholders that the company was safer and more efficient than ever.

Five days later, the Deepwater Horizon disaster happened.

This video unpacks a study that evaluated CEO speeches and how rhetoric and slogans can be disconnected with actual behaviour and resourcing.

It explores how relentless cost-cutting and corporate rhetoric set the stage for catastrophe.

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