“There was no incentive to do bad things.”
With this short statement, Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf summed up the central problem with efforts to reform culture and behavior in banking: an emphasis on “tone from the top” that fails to recognize that it is the “tone from the middle” that truly shapes organizational behavior.
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