四、管理篇 Why com panies and countries Need Good Cops Let s be clear right up front that prisoner abuse is not to be confused with cooking the boo ks. In trying to understand the Abu Ghraib mess by looking at spectacular failures of corpo rate management, we re comparing life-and-death matters with dollars-and-cents matters, and it s offensive to suggest they re entirely comparable. Yet there s no denying that anyone who has worked in a big organization nods his head while reading a bout the Iraqi prison debacle. A screwup so egregious you couldn t have imagined it does incalculable harm to a giant en te we ve seen it before. Managerial failures this mam moth are all different, but in a way they re all the same The great common feature they all share is the compromi sing of the police. That sounds odd in a corporate context, but it shouldn t. Every organization, including every company, has police. In the military their role is obvious: The military police are part of law enforcement within the armed services, and they operate the prisons in Irag. In companies the police are