Sour Grapes Award: Runner-up
After failing to purge his one-time protégé Bernd Pischetsrieder from the chairmanship of Volkswagen last year, former Chairman Ferdinand Piech tries again this year and succeeds. Piech nearly drove VW into a ditch when he ran the company by overspending on grandiose projects. Now he gets a second chance to screw up the company by short-circuiting the mostly-successful turnaround program that Pischetsrieder put in place.
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