What If You'd Worked at Enron?
Fast Company, May, 2002 by Charles Fishman
It wasn't just that working at Enron was hectic, or demanding, or urgent. What made working at Enron different was that it was intoxicating. It took otherwise unglamorous work -- scheduling natural-gas pipelines, developing electricity pricing models, managing a fiber-optic network -- and gave it a powerful sense of mission.
Phyllis Anzalone was the first person Enron dispatched to California in 1996 to sell electricity as a retail commodity. The opportunity, she says, "lit me on fire. It was like a drug."
Helena Payne worked for 24 years at Enron and its predecessor, Houston Natural Gas. She liked the company so much that she recruited her daughter Rebekah Rushing to work there. Rushing, an administrative assistant, adopted the work ethic of an executive. Last...
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