Some bosses get angry when they get answers they don't like from subordinates. Former Lehman Brothers chief executive Richard Fuld apparently didn't like their questions.

In "The Sellout," Charles Gasparino reports that Mr. Fuld once told a trader, after an especially irksome inquiry, that he wanted to "break [his] legs." A question from the floor at an employee town-hall meeting about Lehman's troubled balance sheet caused Mr. Fuld to exclaim: "You deserve to have your legs cut off!" After a dinner...