Last week I flew into Oklahoma City, a descent into flatness, a landscape so resolutely horizontal it makes you wonder if the earth gave up on drama somewhere around the 100th meridian. But the weather was beautiful, temperatures lingering in the mid-70s.

I stayed at the National Hotel, a Marriott Autograph Collection – a marvelous resurrection of an old bank, austere and awesome architecture, its solemn columns and marble interiors already decked out for Christmas, tinsel and twinkle working overtime to soften all that financial severity.

Prospr Aligned had invited me here to join a panel at its inaugural forum. I addressed what might charitably be called the corporate governance enthusiasms of our age, though “manias” would be more precise. The panel’s subject – “The State of ESG and D

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