Exposure: From President to Whistleblower at Olympus

Състояние: Много добро
Забележка: Неизползвана, захабена предна корица, почти отлично книжно тяло.
Издателство: Penguin Books
Град на издаване: London
Наличност: singular
Ширина (мм): 130
Височина (мм): 200
Дебелина (мм): 20
Корици: Меки

‘Woodford relates, at Grisham-like pace, how he stumbled upon a $1.7bn fraud that he, unlike his fellow board members, refused to hide. He is one of the few foreign businessmen to have penetrated deep inside a Japanese corporation and to report back unflinchingly’
Financial Times

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Michael Woodford was a company man. He’d risen through the ranks of giant Japanese firm Olympus to become CEO. But just weeks into the job in Tokyo he came across allegations of enormous fraud.

Yet his every attempt at investigation was blocked. Losing his job, facing a cover-up and possible threats to his life, Woodford fled the country.

Then he did something Olympus didn’t expect. He fought back.

Risking everything, Woodford went on the offensive. He exposeu the crimes at the company’s heart, brought down those who tried to silence him - and became a hero.

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‘Woodford triumphs with a pacey narrative [and] a storyteller’s eye for detail. A fine book by a fine man who did the right thing’
The Times

‘When Woodford turned whistleblower, he set off a tumult unlike anything that the cosseted world of Japanese business had seen’
The New York Times

‘Remarkable. Vivid, angry and straight from the heart’
Mail on Sunday

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Born in 1960, Michael Woodford grew up in Liverpool, and after moving to the south of England spent the next thirty years of his professional life working at Olympus. In April 2011 he was appointed President of the Olympus Corporation - the first Western ‘salary-man' to rise through the ranks to the top of a Japanese giant. That October he was also made CEO, but only two weeks later was dismissed after querying inexplicable payments approaching $2 billion.

Woodford was named Business Person of the Year 2011 by the Sunday Times, the Independent and the Sun, and in 2012 he won the Financial Times ArcelorMittal Award for Boldness in Business. In 2013 he was the winner of the inaugural Contrarian Prize.

Woodford is married with two teenage children and lives in London. He now spends his life writing and lecturing on business culture, and the frailties of human nature in the workplace.