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arrogance of a small group, and many people’s desire
to optimise their returns. It was important for the future
that unscrupulously operating businessmen and
managers be called to account: “Things can't stay as
they are: someone runs a business into the ground,
and makes thousands of people jobless. Then he gets a
golden handshake, and two or three years later, he’s
back on a supervisory board.” To curb these goings-on,
supervisory boards should be made up of independent
people, including members of the political community.
“We should work together on finding solutions
for sensible management, and we need to create
jobs. Otherwise, social unrest could be the result.”
Jean Asselborn took a current example to illustrate
what can happen when entrepreneurial decisionmaking
and entrepreneurial risk are isolated from
each other, and that it is mainly the employees who
suffer as a result. Luxembourg’s most important
branch of industry used to be steel production. In 1911,
five steelmakers joined forces and founded the