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Warren Buffet remarked that it takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. "If you think about that, you'll do things differently." The author, a journalist turns his eye toward the most avoidable business disasters of recent history. In each case, the story begins at the point where a disastrous decision was made, and then it examines what happened, why it happened and what could have been different. Each story highlights a...
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"Bankruptcy in America, in stark contrast to its status in most other countries, typically signifies not a debtor's last gasp but an opportunity to catch one's breath and recoup. Why has the nation's legal system evolved to allow both corporate and individual debtors greater control over their fate than imaginable elsewhere?" "Masterfully probing the political dynamics behind this question, David Skeel here provides the first complete account of the...
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Pursuing a methodical analysis of the causes and lessons of Enron's collapse, this book seeks to understand the management behaviour and practices that led Enron down the path from innovation to fraud, how the board of directors failed to detect the risks in the company's strategies and why external agencies failed to step in.
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Just as Watergate was the defining political story of its time, so Enron is the biggest business story of our time. And just as All the President's Men was the one Watergate book that gave readers the full story, with all the drama and nuance, The Smartest Guys in the Room is the one book you have to read to understand this amazing business saga.
5) Life goes on
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Follows Hans Selderson, a German Jew and decorated World War I veteran living in Germany and working as a textile merchant, and his family as they encounter troubles in the aftermath of the war. Based on the author's life.
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