By Greg Wright
MBA, CFE, CFP®, CLU, ChFC
Certified Fraud Examiner
Certified Financial Planner™
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| Big Monkey at the Top |
We had a 30-year
history as season ticket holders. Except
for one year, my wife Betty and I had season tickets since 1984 when Mayor
Hudnut helped recruit the Indianapolis
Colts. Watching Payton Manning throw to
Marvin Harrison was amazing. We were seated
in the 6th row, and I sat in at
an end-of-row seat. We watched some great football. That was then.
Things changed when Tony Dungy,
and Payton Manning left. The drunks the row behind us bothered me even
more. Management was absolutely no help correcting that
problem. Maybe it was the NFL’s steady shift to
political correctness. Can you believe that some players will not
honor our flag and the NFL calls that their right of “self-expression”?
However, for me, I think, it is what one national
fraud consultant called his BMT theory. Yeah. Big
Monkey at the Top theory.
You may have heard about the tone at the top of an organization.
This is a term used to define management's leadership and commitment to
openness, honesty, integrity, and ethical behavior. BMT is the opposite. When the
corner office is occupied by a monkey absent most of those attributes,
bad things happen to an organization.
Dungy’s values and influence have retired.
Probably the primary reason I voted to give up our Colts season
tickets was the BMT. Let me know if I’m missing very much.