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How They Blew It: The CEOs and Entrepreneurs Behind Some of the World's Most Catastrophic Business Failures - Paperback | Diverse Reads

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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.

ISBN-13: 9780749460655

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Kogan Page - Ltd.

Publication Date: 07-27-2010

Pages: 224

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

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.

Table of Contents

About the Authors vii

Introduction 1

1 Chosen? Bernie Ebbers 13

2 Deadly Intent Christopher Foster 24

3 Stitch Up Mikhail Khodorkovsky 34

4 Rock Star Jón Ásgeir Jóhannesson 45

5 All That Glitters Reuben Singh 56

6 More Than He Could Chew Tim Power 66

7 King Kong Dick Fuld 77

8 The Art of Money Guy Naggar Peter Klimt 88

9 One Step Too Far Adolf Merckle 99

10 Exile Boris Berezovsky 109

11 Power Politics Zhou Zhengyi 119

12 Paying the Penalty Mark Goldberg 128

13 Friends in High Places Ken Lay 139

14 How to Blow a Billion Kevin Leech 152

15 A Bridge Too Far James Cayne 165

16 Credit Crunched Robert Tchenguiz 176

Conclusion 189

Index 206