Or maybe just too truthful: What Catherine the Great can teach CEOs.

They’ve already done to the shareholders and workers what she did to her horse^*.

FWIW, Jay Winik, the author of this book, also does not have a good handle on what Catherine the Great was as a ruler. Look up Potemkin villiages.

^*Yes, I know that the story is false. She died of a stroke while sitting on the chamber pot.