It was billed as the strategy meeting not to miss. WorldCom Inc. senior executives from around the globe gathered two months ago at the telecom giant's headquarters in Clinton, Miss. They had come to hear CEO Bernard J. Ebbers reveal his grand vision for rescuing a company mired in debt, sluggish growth, and rising controversy about its accounting practices. What executives heard instead was their boss thundering about the theft of coffee in the company's break room. How did Ebbers know? Because he had matched brewing filters with bags, and at the end of the month, filters outnumbered bags. Henceforth, Ebbers commanded, his executives would follow a checklist of priorities now referred to as "Bernie's seven points of light." They would count coffee bags, make sure no lights were left on at the end of the day, and save cooling costs in the summer by turning the thermostat up four degrees, say three former and two current executives. "Bernie is running a $40 billion company as if it were still his own mom-and-pop business," says one WorldCom exec who attended the meeting. "He doesn't know how to grow the company, just shave pennies."
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机译：据称这是不容错过的战略会议。世通公司（WorldCom Inc.）来自世界各地的高级管理人员两个月前在密西西比州克林顿市的总部汇聚一堂，来听听首席执行官伯纳德·J·埃伯斯（Bernard J. Ebbers）透露他对拯救一家陷入债务，增长缓慢和成长中的公司的宏伟愿景。有关其会计惯例的争议。高管们听到的是，他们的老板对公司休息室里的咖啡被盗感到震惊。埃伯斯怎么知道？因为他已将酿造过滤器与袋子相匹配，所以到月底，过滤器的数量超过了袋子。从今以后，埃伯斯命令，他的高管将遵循一份优先次序清单，现在被称为“伯尼的七个重点”。三位前任和两位现任高管说，他们会数咖啡袋，确保一天结束时不留灯，并通过将恒温器调高四度来节省夏天的制冷成本。参加会议的一位世通公司高管说：“伯尼正在经营一家市值400亿美元的公司，仿佛它仍然是他自己的老牌生意。” “他不知道如何发展公司，只是削了几分钱。”
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