Bad Company

The Cult of the CEO: Quarterly Essay 10

Gideon Haigh

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English

Black Inc
01 June 2003

Business studies: general; Australian Society

In Bad Company Gideon Haigh scrutinises the way we have turned CEOs into tin gods.

Is moral outrage the appropriate response to the collapses of Enron or HIH or are we all implicated in a crazy system? Haigh argues that the attempt to create great entrepreneurs of the new caste of CEOs by giving them shares is doomed to failure and inherently absurd. In a tough-minded, vigorous demolition job on the culture that produced the cult of the CEO, Haigh writes a mini-history of business and shows how the classic traditions of capitalism are mocked by the managerialism of the present.

'The world where the CEO is deemed to be a 'genius' at least equal to a great actor or a great sportsman is a world in which . . .

Gideon Haigh refuses to believe.' -Peter Craven, Introduction

'The making of the modern CEO has been a story of more- more power, more discretion, more ownership, more money, more demands, more expectations and, above all, more illusions. More, as so often, has brought less . . . ' -Gideon Haigh, Bad Company

By: Gideon Haigh
Imprint: Black Inc
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 168mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 246g
ISBN: 9781863953559
ISBN 10: 1863953558
Pages: 130
Publication Date: 01 June 2003
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Bad Company: The Cult of the CEO: Quarterly Essay 10

I would suggest that anyone working in this area reads this book, its important contribution to an ongoing debate cannot be ignored. <br>-Sociology <br>