They dispatched Miyauchi, the University of Washington-educated son of a Japanese lumber merchant, tolearntheropes at U.S. Leasing International (now part of Ford's financial arm).
Flexon was among those passed over, but he agreed to leave his job as finance chief at NRG to run Foster Wheeler's U.S. division, where he was tolearntheropes and compete for the top job.
How one confronts the challenges of regulation makes all the difference as to whether a career as a regulator only initially flounders in response tothe need tolearntheropes or ultimately founders because one could not navigate the dangers.