Because blame avoidance never goes out of style
Look, it's a tough economy out there, a lot of you are new to your jobs and you're about to face the most harrowing moment of a young executive's career: Reporting bad (probably awful, possibly record-breakingly horrendous) financial results to your bosses, your board and your investors. Not to increase the pressure or anything, but how well or badly you do this will determine your entire future and whether your kids have enough to eat, etc., etc.
But it's not my fault, you say. Well, maybe. Or not. In a philosophical sense, you'll never really know: It could be $130 a barrel oil that sunk your entire market, or it could be that you're a blithering idiot who can barely manage his way through a morning constitutional. Think about it: If you were a blithering idiot, is there any chance you'd be self-aware enough to recognize your own blitheracy?
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