What cycling has in common with banking

This has been bugging me all morning and preventing me to finish a sculpture... so I am getting this off my chest.

I have been blogging before about big companies, becoming too big and as a result creating this poisonous culture where shareholders value and profit are their only concern. The society is who pays the price. Some companies are so big and powerful, they have more power than governments and can influence them in how much tax they pay. It not, they leave, or find another creative way to account their profits.

Anyway, most of you might know that Lance Armstrong, formerly known as the most successful cyclist in history, had an interview about his drug use all those years he won the Tour de France. No real surprises there. Same thing as the bankers; blame the culture, no real remorse, lying during the game and destroying other people's lives.
In this case he blames his bullying and drug use on him having had cancer and the general cycling culture on drugs. A culture change starts with changing yourself and when you are the leader of the pack, like he clearly was, he could have changed that more than anybody else. He would have been the whistle blower with the most impact. Instead he kept on cheating, which he cowardly calls, creating a level playing field. That is not where it stopped, he also bullied and sued those who were trying to expose him.

I think it is time to loose a bit of the Anglo-American philosophy and be less focussed on the money, hero and shareholders value. I have been a controller and if there has been to much emphasise on just one control measure to improve things, than eventually it will start rotting from within it's core. There is know optimal way of organising society in the long run and we have become to familiar and relaxed about our short term focus on money. We need to actively build a better culture as a replacement for the decline in Christianity and focus more on long term goals. But there doesn't seem to be any leader in the whole of Europe that has any vision. They are all technocrats trying to solve money issues and technocrats don't have the vision to prevent other big events. Where is the leader we are looking for?