How They Blew It

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.

Autorentext

Jamie Oliver, Tony Goodwin

Klappentext

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.

Inhalt

• Chapter - 00: Introduction;
• Chapter - 01: Bernie Ebbers - Chosen?;
• Chapter - 02: Christopher Foster - Deadly Intent;
• Chapter - 03: Mikhail Khodorkovsky - Stitch Up;
• Chapter - 04: Jón Ásgeir Jóhannesson - Rock Star;
• Chapter - 05: Reuben Singh - All That Glitters;
• Chapter - 06: Tim Power - More Than He Could Chew;
• Chapter - 07: Dick Fuld - King Kong;
• Chapter - 08: Guy Naggar and Peter Klimt - The Art of Money;
• Chapter - 09: Adolf Merckle - One Step Too Far;
• Chapter - 10: Boris Berezovsky - Exile;
• Chapter - 11: Zhou Zhengyi - Power Politics;
• Chapter - 12: Mark Goldberg - Paying the Penalty;
• Chapter - 13: Ken Lay - Friends in High Places;
• Chapter - 14: Kevin Leech - How to Blow a Billion;
• Chapter - 15: James Cayne - A Bridge Too Far;
• Chapter - 16: Robert Tchenguiz - Credit Crunched