The Solution
2022 Reflection: I have called the Nortel Affair "Dr. Anderson, Part II," because of the similarities between the two. The Senior VP of Sales, that ordered me to make an unethical (and possibly illegal) hire, was in the role of Dr. Anderson. The Executive Team at Nortel were in the position of the Regents of the University of Michigan. But the most important players - the rank and file of the company that did what they were told and made no waves (protecting their own positions) were like the staff and middle-level managers at the U of M (especially in the professional community at the U of M). They were like the Nurse Practitioner "Hahaha, we know all about Doctor Anderson, but he's highly respected in his field," with their advice of "Yeah there was a letter going around about you. You should have just done what you were told." My only awareness of an invisible boulder, in the middle 1990s, derived from a sense of frustration, that I seem to keep get...