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Title: Anatomy of Greed: The Unshredded Truth from an Enron Insider by Brian Cruver ISBN: 0786710934 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.89
Rating: 5
Summary: are there other Enron companies out there?
Comment: Just finish reading this book and I have to ask are there other Enron companies out there? Most books that deal with history of a company are very dry and not much about the people who worked there. Brain Cruver kept me on my seat wanting to know more. I had read the stories in the News about Enron now at last I understand what happen. As I read what was going on in Enron, I kept thinking is this also happing in my company? This book is a part of business history that will be taught in school one day.
Rating: 3
Summary: Know your own anatomy
Comment: First off, this is a very interesting read if you are unfamiliar with the situation. Brian did a nice job, he's very funny, and I think you will enjoy it. He is, at times, jaded, but understandably so.
Personally, I had access to numerous Enron corporate execs, corporate counsel, corporate accountants, investment bankers, consultants, etc. for several years in the 90s. Truth be told I was only a fly on the wall at the outset of this mess but I have learned a great deal. With the help of others like Brian I hope that will continue.
The only thing wrong, from my perspective, with this book is that the author does not fully understand the "greed" that overtook the company. He thinks nothing of writing a book that supposedly analyzes this greed. Yet, he thought nothing of doing things that were clearly unethical, possibly illegal, and downright GREEDY for his own benefit AFTER the house of cards collapsed.
His experience on E-bay is a good example. Obviously he felt, as many of us do, that one set of rules applied for his superiors, and another set of rules applied for him. Unfortunately the text is presaged with an "ethical lecture" from his alma mater. In light of this irony, I feel it puts some egg on the face of UT's B-school but the preface is still relevant. Conversely, the argument can be made that ethics must be taught in society LONG before people attend a graduate school.
Greed is Greed people. Let's face it.
In short, this is a GREAT book! I hope that MANY, MANY former Enron employees like Brian choose to do the same. The truth often has many facets and the real truth is never known until the majority have told their story. Nice job Brian, hope I haven't been too critical and I hope you have a great career.
Rating: 5
Summary: More than just an inside perspective
Comment: Loved this book - most of all just couldn't put it down. Cruver worked at Enron, so his stories and his experiences are different from any journalist; although Cruver also reports on the story with unexpected humor. The characters are real, and I could not help turning page after page waiting to see what happens to each of them (read the book in two days!) - even though we may THINK we know how the story ends. This was also the first book, and while other reviewers say Cruver borrowed from news stories they forgot to notice that he wrote this book BEFORE those stories came out. Others question the fact that Cruver was forced to disguise names for legal reasons. Nonsense. Every story I've ever read on the subject of Enron has at least one "anonymous source" so Cruver takes you a step further and pushes the envelope on identifiying these not-so-innocent people. This is simply a great book that will be remembered as the Enron book most entertaining, most interesting, and most well-written. I hope he writes more books, and I can't wait to see the movie version of this one (CBS "The Crooked E").
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Title: How Companies Lie: Why Enron Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg by Richard J. Schroth, A. Larry Elliott ISBN: 0609610813 Publisher: Crown Pub Pub. Date: 25 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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