Jamie Oliver, Tony Goodwin

How They Blew It (eBook, ePUB)

The CEOs and Entrepreneurs Behind Some of the World's Most Catastrophic Business Failures

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How They Blew It is a series of eye-popping tales of entrepreneurs and business leaders who went from corporate gurus to financial disaster zones in rapid and humiliating fashion. Full of surprising details and mind-blowing sums of money, it looks at the characteristics of these leaders and the fine line between hero and zero.How They Blew It is about the people at the heart of these business catastrophes. It is about what drives them to succeed and then to fail. It is a compelling examination of the rights and wrongs of each case and it seeks to get into the minds of the people behind the business disasters and ask "Why the hell did they do that?" By examining how business ventures can go so badly wrong, you can learn to avoid those mistakes in the first place.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kogan Page
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780749459659
• Artikelnr.: 38220766

Autorenporträt

Jamie Oliver has over 15 years experience as a freelance journalist writing about business topics and entrepreneurs. A former Daily Telegraph columnist, his work has appeared in The Financial Times, The Independent and a range of leading business magazines.

Tony Goodwin runs the international recruitment business, Antal, and is one of the UK's most successful business service entrepreneurs with over 25 years' experience in business. Tony has recently been selected as an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2011 London & South winner.

Inhaltsangabe

About the Authors
Introduction
Bernie Ebbers - Chosen?
Christopher Foster - Deadly Intent
Mikhail Khodorkovsky - Stitch Up
Jόn Ásqeir Jόhannesson - Rock Star
Reuben Singh - All That Glitters
Tim Power - More Than He Could Chew
Dick Fuld - King Kong
Guy Naggar and Peter Klimpt - The Art of Money
Adolf Merckle - One Step Too Far
Boris Berezovsky - Exile
Zhou Zhengyi - Power Politics
Mark Goldbery - Paying the Penalty
Ken Lay - Friends in High Places
Kevin Leech - How to Blow a Billion
James Cayne - A Bridge Too Far
Robert Tchenguiz - Credit Crunched
Conclusion
Index