The bigger they are the harder they fall is what they say.
Tiger Woods has learned this the hard way when he single handily put his unstoppable golf career in the gutter with his off course affairs. Toyota has suffered a similar fate by playing Russian Roulette with public safety while bragging about their antics in corporate emails.
Yeah, they all seem to do it at one time or another. The superstars and corporate giants simply get too big to believe they could ever fail and become insulated to morality of their own actions. Ultimately their ill-conceived notions of invincibility become their own undoing and the house of cards tumbles down.
Fortunately for both of them, the American public loves a winner, and in general is a forgiving group. So while both will suffer in the short term, they will eventually recover and move on learning a painful lesson along the way.
But the real question may be who will recover first? Will Tiger be the first to work through his issues and finally move on to prominence on the course? Will the public forgive Toyota and understand they have been purged of the rogue executives that caused them to stray from the core values?
Both have some real obstacles to overcome over the next year, but who will be back on top first? Who are you more willing to forgive?
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