Foolish Book Review: Revolt in the Boardroom
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Exploring the upheaval in Corporate America and why CEOs have become an endangered species.
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Profit-crazed traders, controllers out of their depth and executives who turn a blind eye: a former inspector at Societe Generale paints a damning picture of trading room anarchy at the scandal-hit bank.
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"Confessions of a Wall Street Shoeshine Boy" (HarperCollins Publishing, 288 pages. $24.95) &#151; Doug Stumpf: In the cutthroat world of Wall Street, where money is king and power an aphrodisiac, most menial workers barely merit a second glance.
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When I suggested in a recent column that a problematic 5 percent of employees account for 75 percent of the IT support burden, I expected a wave of âright on!â letters from IT support staffers. After the column was published, the letters did come â most of them disagreeing with my premise, with one reader suggesting that the real whiner was yours truly. I still think itâs outside the realm of overextended IT departments to provide training on basic computing skills (which I defined as âmanaging and finding files, and basic working knowledge of suites such as MS Officeâ). But my thinking was adjusted a bit by the thoughtful feedback.
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Opinion Stepping in and taking charge
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"Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture" is not your typical business book. Instead, it's a wide-ranging work of social criticism peppered with examples from the movies and rock music. The authors focus more on the psychology of consumers than the inner workings of the boardroom, which is not surprising, considering that both come from backgrounds in philosophy. Each ...
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The once-clubby atmosphere of the public company boardroom has undergone a makeover during the past several years, as board members become more willing to flex their muscle and aggressively press management for changes.
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Media & professional: Two quixotic magnates, a row over cronyism, a boardroom feud ... James Robinson on the fascinating power struggle at Tony O'Reilly's media empire.
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I noted yesterday that there seems to be some media fanfare surrounding Amazon's launch of a digital book tablet. It occurred to me that the markets surrounding media such as books, music and movies bear more than a passing resemblance to financial markets, and as such, perhaps they were amenable to a similar method of analysis. Being the owner of a sizable collection of paper books, this led me to consider the drawbacks one faces when Digital Rights Management restrictions are put in place.
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"The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 388 pages, $26), by Richard Thompson Ford: The fight against racism is nearing a crossroads, a "crisis of success" that's blurring definitions of discrimination and allowing insidious injustices to persist unaddressed.
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Strategy+business concludes that a controversial new book on the strategic value of information technology is flawed--but correct.
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You can learn a lot from writing a newspaper column, especially when a reader calls in to say that you're wrong. I've just received a revealing critique that foreshadows a nasty new escalation in the battle over our digital rights.
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Journalists who advise boards to "sell the company" or "fire all the executives," but have no management experience, lack credibility. They also sound like complete idiots.
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By PETER SVENSSON Associated Press  The practice now is more widely known, thanks to the Hewlett- Packard scandal.   NEW YORK -- Although the boardroom scandal at Hewlett-Packard Co.
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Who gets to the top of the corporate greasy pole -- and how that has changed over the past century -- is the subject of a fascinating book, "Paths to Power."
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DALLAS (BP)--A stay-at-home mom who became fed up with the influence of âliberal-leaning groupsâ and unelected bureaucrats on textbook content developed a simple strategy for change.
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[Business India]: Mumbai, Nov 26 : The much talked about family feud over the control of Reliance Industries, India&#39;s largest industrial house, is set to turn into a full-fledged boardroom battle that may entail a revamp of the company&#39;s management.