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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Adam Michaelson |
| ISBN: | 9780425227411 0425227413 |
| OCLC Number: | 233549376 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | xiv, 354 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The vault, and the meeting that chanced America -- Agency man -- Punching the corporate ticket -- Welcome to "Countrywide 101" -- A corporate dream factory -- Idol worship -- Building a better housetrap -- The art of not lying -- The doomsday scenario -- Taking my concerns all the way to the bank -- No more options -- A kingdom conquered -- A train wreck in slow motion -- The great debate: what do we do now? |
| Responsibility: | Adam Michaelson. |
Abstract:
"When business school classes study this collapse in hindsight many years from now..., they will certainly pore through reams of rich data, charts, and graphs, and seek out various flaws in the present-day business models, looking for what went wrong, and what was the tipping point. But no data, no textbook, no chart can ever illustrate the human aspects of what causes bubbles, and provide the first-hand account of the thinking--the flavor of those moments--from within those conference rooms at that point in history. The excitement, the group-think, the momentum and fear that squelch resistance, the systemic power of the mighty current pushing the fish along, this is the inside story of the feelings within the walls of Countrywide during that time, which textbooks will never be able to recreate..."--Dust jacket.
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