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I highly recommend Bethany McLean’s "The Smartest Guys in the Room" to read up on Enron. Also, Lucy Prebble - who is now a consultant on HBO‘s succession - has
by kratom_sandwich 3y ago
I highly recommend Bethany McLean’s "The Smartest Guys in the Room" to read up on Enron. Also, Lucy Prebble - who is now a consultant on HBO‘s succession - has written a nice play on the matter.
- hernamesbarbara 3y agoAlex Gibney ftw if you're into docu films
- RealityVoid 3y agoI recently listened to the aquired podcast on Enron: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/enron https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/enron It's pretty long, but it's a good podcast, IMO. It also mentioned the book in it, and I think it was one of the main sources of information.
- version_five 3y agoSgitr is a great book and gives a real appreciation of how Ernon could have happened and will happen again. The perfect storm of hands off management and belief that ideas are more important than execution, plus the usual greed and slippery slope of covering small frauds with increasingly bigger ones. Other than Skilling and Fastow, they weren't all bad guys, I hope I'm never caught in a situation like that. Also interesting is that sgitr is almost identical to "Bad Blood" by John Carreyrou (sp?) about Theranos. Most of the same elements were present in that fraud.