In Whitlam's case there was a bit of both.
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DARREN Woods, chief executive of ExxonMobil, has probably never heard of Gough Whitlam, Australian Prime Minister in the early 1970s, though it was Whitlam who unwittingly forecast Exxon’s fate with his advice that sometime you have to “crash through or crash”.