I kind of like Scrooge.

I don’t wholeheartedly agree with your assessment. If you are talking about placing Scrooge in the position of Comptroller or head of Collections, I would possibly agree. As far as placing him at the corporate helm as an overall guiding visionary, I strongly disagree. The proper role of a businessman is to maximize profits while Scrooge’s decisions were focused solely on the attainment and retention of money not necessarily the maximization of profits. This is brought out by his willingness (also subjecting his employees) to needlessly work under conditions that were detrimental to his health i.e., working in an unheated environment.
You mention, “… embracing a strong work ethic…”. Forgive me if I’m wrong but I think your view of the work ethic is that people should ‘live-to-work’ rather than ‘work-to-live’ and only slaves fall into this view of work. Whereas, the ‘work-to-live’ view is conducive to a person’s long range wellbeing.

Last but not least, wanting / demanding time off or extra pay is not necessarily a sign of a lazy bum. Less than a hundred years ago entire families worked twelve or more hrs. a day not because they had a stronger work ethic but because they had to in order to put food on table. Slowly over time the eight hour work day, other fringe benefits and child labor eradication became standard not because people were becoming lazier but because they were becoming vastly more productive.

" Three can keep a secret, if two are dead "

Yeah, those children living in poverty need to get jobs!


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While businessmen who care only for money is not a good role model for living a happy life, I just don't like the giddy goat Scrooge after his transformation.

Well, you certainly didn't get the point of the book/movie. You might be good at business, but you're not so good at gleaning the theme of a book/movie.

It's not about "sound lending practices" or having a "strong work ethic" or "keeping our economy going."

It's about a miser who has forsaken all others for the sake of the coin. Not even for the value of the coin or what it can do. Just for the sake of the coin itself. An addiction, if you will. He abuses his power, underpays his employees, treats people shabbily and rudely. He is an unpleasant, scowling bit of gristle.

What he does does not benefit mankind, except in the most meager kind of way. He works no harder than others. He interferes with the normal social interaction of others, which interferes with keeping an economy going. Additionally, humans are not machines, and are constructed in such a way as to need a social group to sustain itself. He is anti-social. He has serious mental issues.

Your company would fire him in a heartbeat, since he'd be as unpleasant to everyone as he is to those beneath him. Personnel would quit. He would interfere with the normal functioning of business. He would not take orders from his higher ups, if he perceived them as standing between him and his bit of gold. He's like an alcoholic. Totally self-absorbed, self-pitying, narcissistic, egotistical, and uncaring of all other individuals. Until the end.

Only when he becomes a happy man can he live a more fulfilled life and enrich the world of himself, others....and your company. But this isn't about companies.