Nomi Prins, who worked on Wall Street and wrote Other People's Money: The Corporate Mugging of America, tells NPR's Melissa Block that some people on Wall Street can go through a self-justification process based on ego.

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Although Mr Ellison is capable of charming the birds from a tree, an outsized ego and an unrelenting customer-focus do not usually go hand in hand.

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Of course, this is not baseball but one cannot ever take ego out of the equation when it comes to managing a company and it will not go unnoticed that if BHP is frustrated in its approach for Potash Corp. it will be the third corporate takeover failure to be chalked up by CEO Marius Kloppers since he assumed the role in 2007.

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