Face Off
By Cora Daniels

(FORTUNE Magazine) – The Corporation, a new Canadian documentary (and Sundance winner) being released in the U.S. this summer, has come up with an interesting theory for why work sometimes seems crazy: If the corporation were a person, he could qualify as a psychopath. The filmmakers went through the World Health Organization's list of traits that define psychopathic behavior (incapacity to maintain enduring relationships, callous unconcern, etc.) and posited that companies, through their relentless pursuit of profit and breaching of legal and social standards, fit the description. Predictably, the film airs plenty of corporate dirty laundry (Monsanto's controversial milk hormone BGH, Shell's misadventures in the Niger delta). But with a mix of newsreel clips and interviews with the likes of Peter Drucker, and FORTUNE 500 CEOs, as well as Noam Chomsky, the net effect is more balanced than your typical lefty screed. To see whether real workers would vote to commit, we asked four business types for their diagnosis. --Cora Daniels