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Summary: Ohmygoodness!
Review: Amazing, hilarious, and downright scary!! The behavior of the men who ran the world in the 1990s exposed from the Oval Office to the corner office. Apparently these guys were most interested in getting more money for themselves, more power, and laid more -- by women other than their wives. How sad that this behavior was masked or applauded and got a free pass from the press. What is so noble about giving the market what it wants while treating so many with such disrespect whether from layoffs or abusive treatment of employees? That's not providing shareholder value but simply lining the pockets of a few at the expense of many. Byron should get a medal for exposing men in power behaving badly. No wonder the 1990s ended in such a bust.
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Summary: The Dish on the deals, the debauchery, and the dysfunction!
Review: As a fan of Christopher Byron's prior book, Martha Inc. and his New York Post column, I anxiously awaited the publication of Testosterone Inc. I was not disappointed. I absolutely loved this book !!! It is a total page-turner. I read it in 2 days. The rise and fall of the American CEO is a culturally defining moment and no one tells the story better than Christopher Byron. The money, the women, the greed ... while we were admiring these "all powerful CEOs", they were acting like drunken frat boys behind our backs. Thank you Christopher Byron for telling us the inside story - the very entertaining yet very scary true story.
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Summary: It Doesn't Get Better!
Review: At long last! Someone has taken the time to write a definitive and authoritative text on the abusive and destructive leadership of a few heralded CEOs from a (hopefully) bygone era. The research in this book is superb. It is exhaustive and painstaking in its determination to be fact-based, detailed and accurate. I think the author and his team deserve gold medals for truth seeking, accuracy, insightful observation and analysis. Thank you, Mr. Byron, for knowing who to go after, and for having a sense of humor as you do.
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Summary: Bravo
Review: Bravo to Chris Byron for finally telling the real story of these celebrity CEOs. The pillars that we placed these men on is chipping away and it is about time someone gave us another voice. Jack Welch and the men of GE should be ashamed of themselves. I found this book both entertaining and downright stunning at the same time. Read this book--you'll be shocked!
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Summary: Flesh and the Mammon
Review: C. Byron depicts the 4 main characters in this book (business managers J. Welsh, D. Kozlowski, A. Dunlap and R. Perelman) as angry self-servers and tenacious wive-dumpers with babe-magnet fantasies.
Their main common feature is frustration, with parents, jobs, pay and spouse ... even after they reached the top. It was (is) never enough.
Out of this frustration grew their aggression and immense drive for power and dominance, their savage cost-cutting and childish jealousies, which were fatal even for their most loyal collaborators.
For J. Welsh, company loyalty was a weakness and pure hypocrisy.
Unless you consider these people as the most brilliant specimen of the homo sapiens species (they are all falling from their horse in this book), this is an unimportant book about uninteresting people (I agree, not for their employees who were fired).
This book has its bouts of gags and vitriolic comments, but also some unnecessary outburst, dragging in e.g. Bill Clinton's escapades.
All in all, an extended somewhat better gossip column.
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Summary: hidden envy fuels the pen
Review: Christopher Byron is a barely-contained little nut of rage whose transparent drive to make fun of or denigrate the powerful, seems his way of touching the hem of powerful, successful people. He appears to be in great need to vent his envy and impotence. Worthless read.
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Summary: Footnotes Long and Annoying
Review: Each page is 1/2 copy, and 1/2 footnotes. The author uses so many different footnotes, that he has to revert to sometimes as many as 5 different sybmols on a single page. A (not literal) example:
The greed was born early in* Jack Welch * Here, I use the classical "in". You may think I mean "With the characteristic, attribute, or property of: a tall man in an overcoat.", but I really mean "Located inside; inner.". More information about the word "in" can be found in Fred Smith's, 1998 book, "The History of the Word 'In'", published by Harper & Collins, 2nd edition paperback. I apprectiate the depths of your research, Byron, but this is really annoying and hard to read.
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Summary: Nice angle, terrible book....
Review: Hoping to gain some insight into the behavior of Corporate Exec gone bad, I picked up this book........ MISTAKE! This book is the National Enquirer of books. Ridiculous pop psychology that would make a first-year psych. student howl with laughter (It was the testosterone! No. Wait. It was because his mother called him a punk!) The footnote system is insane. Memo to Mr. Bryon: the use of metaphors (such as Lillith) typically do require footnotes to explain them. Conclusions and assumptions made by others are pushed aside to give more room to Mr. Byron's equally fallacious assumptions and illogical conclusions. Poorly written. Poorly edited. All this, plus, Mr. Byron sets the men's movement back 20 years with his male-bashing biological reductionism and stereotyping. Too bad. An insightful book on this topic is sorely needed. Anyone know of one?
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Summary: Nice angle, terrible book....
Review: Hoping to gain some insight into the behavior of Corporate Exec gone bad, I picked up this book........ MISTAKE! This book is the National Enquirer of books. Ridiculous pop psychology that would make a first-year psych. student howl with laughter (It was the testosterone! No. Wait. It was because his mother called him a punk!) The footnote system is insane. Memo to Mr. Bryon: the use of metaphors (such as Lillith) typically do require footnotes to explain them. Conclusions and assumptions made by others are pushed aside to give more room to Mr. Byron's equally fallacious assumptions and illogical conclusions. Poorly written. Poorly edited. All this, plus, Mr. Byron sets the men's movement back 20 years with his male-bashing biological reductionism and stereotyping. Too bad. An insightful book on this topic is sorely needed. Anyone know of one?
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Summary: Been there, over and over again
Review: I picked this book up for airport reading this past weekend and am sorry I did. This book is not more than overhyped sensationalism based on speculation and heresay. It offers nothing noteworthy as far as new and enlightening news as it relates to the CEOs in question. Haven't we been here, seen it? Pick up your local newspaper and make your own informed deductions on the character of the individuals. Additionally, more time than necessary seems to be devoted to calling into question Suzy Wetlaufer's character (again, based not on facts but on speculation from mostly unidentified sources). Who cares? Isn't she getting what she wants with all of the publicity and attention that we're giving her? Spend your money on something else, something with real journalistic merit. If you want to quench your thirst for corporate CEO gossip, do an online search for free and uncover the same earth-shattering conclusions that are in this book that the rest of us figured out a year or more ago. This book is too little, too late.
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