A Colossal Failure of Common Sense The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers

...gives the readers a visceral sense of what it was like to work at Lehman Brothers and the fateful decisions and events that led to the company s death spiral...
Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

Highly readable A Colossal Failure of Common Sense largely rings true. It expresses the anger that many former Lehman employees still feel toward Mr. Fuld. And it convincingly characterizes the investment bank as a house divided against itself, between the bears who had foreseen bubbles and the bulls who wrongly believed that this time was different.
The Economist

... describes a CEO ­acting as if his firm was too big to fail.
Wall Street Journal

...poignantly told...from an insider [who] witnessed, often in amazement and disgust, the corporate dysfunction and hubristic leadership that led to [Lehman s] demise.
BusinessWeek

...engaging and even funny.
Fortune