Abstract:
If you read Barbarians at the Gates or were shocked by Enron’s fraudulent debacle, you should enjoy this fictionalized, hard-hitting version of a corporate power struggle. It shows how a visionary business plan that was not followed through, how never-ending, vicious corporate politics in which a new set of bureaucrats took over from a previously entrenched one, and how executive boredom and carelessness following hard-fought achievement, undid an initially most promising corporate turnaround. Then, along with a conglomerate sale at a bargain price, shareholder hides were further singed by an unprecedented golden parachute award.