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Fantastic! And, sadly, true.

I think you need to swap the Damage and severance axes for this to make sense.

My severance sucked so, well... hmmm

Or

I was too stupid and didn't demand more.

Particularly apt in light of this:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4fb6d18c-86eb-11dc-a3ff-0000779fd2ac.html

Completey fallacious in the light of the common root principle:

High influence and power (hence btw: previous value created) correlates with severance and potential damage done...

Only the bad cases turn up in the newspaper...

And voilà!

P

Every case I've ever seen fits your graph perfectly.

I'm 11 and understood that now that's saying something.