Object lessons

'We are satisfied with nothing less than the very best in everything we do. The great fun here will be for all of us to discover just how good we can really be.' Unfortunately for Enron and its many stakeholders, that turned out to be not very good at all, which means that its last annual report now makes for some sorry reading. Great fun, indeed. Nearly every page is full of the sort of corporate puff that many companies still delight in dishing out to their shareholders - even though it