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Power Greed And Hubris
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Author : James R. Crockett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Power Greed And Hubris written by James R. Crockett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with categories.
From 2003 to 2009 sensational judicial bribery scandals rocked Mississippi's legal system. Famed trial lawyers Paul Minor and Richard (Dickie) Scruggs and renowned judge and former prosecutor Bobby DeLaughter proved to be the nexus of these scandals. Seven attorneys and a former state auditor were alleged to have attempted to bribe or to have actually bribed five state judges to rule in favor of Minor and Scruggs in several lawsuits. This is the story of how federal authorities, following up on information provided by a bank examiner and a judge who could not be bribed, toppled Minor, Scruggs, and their enablers in what was exposed as the most significant legal scandal of twenty-first-century Mississippi. James R. Crockett details the convoluted schemes that eventually put three of the judges, six of the attorneys, and the former auditor in federal prison. All of the men involved were successful professionals and three of them, Minor, Scruggs, and fellow attorney Joey Langston, were exceptionally wealthy. The stories involve power, greed, but most of all hubris. The culprits rationalized abominable choices and illicit actions to influence judicial decisions. The crimes came to light in those six years, but some crimes were committed before that. These men put themselves above the law and produced the perfect storm of bribery that ended in disgrace. The tales Crockett relates about these scandals and the actions of Paul Minor and Dickie Scruggs are almost unbelievable. Individuals willingly became their minions in power plays designed to distort the very rule of law that most of them had sworn to uphold
Day Of Reckoning
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Author : Patrick J. Buchanan
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2007-11-27
Day Of Reckoning written by Patrick J. Buchanan and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-27 with Political Science categories.
America is coming apart at the seams. Forces foreign and domestic seek an end to U.S. sovereignty and independence. Before us looms the prospect of an America breaking up along the lines of race, ethnicity, class and culture. In Day of Reckoning, Pat Buchanan reveals the true existential crisis of the nation and shows how President Bush's post-9/11 conversion to an ideology of "democratism" led us to the precipice of strategic disaster abroad and savage division at home. Ideology, writes Buchanan, is a Golden Calf, a false god, a secular religion that seeks vainly, like Marxism, to create a paradise on earth. While free enterprise is good, the worship of a "free trade" that is destroying the dollar, de-industrializing America, and ending our economic independence, is cult madness. While America must stand for freedom and self-determination, the use of U.S. troops to police the planet or serve as advance guard of some "world democratic revolution" is, as Iraq shows, imperial folly that will bring ruin to the republic. While America should speak out for human rights, the idea that we get in Russia's face and hand out moral report cards to every nation on earth is moral arrogance. While we have benefited from immigration and the melting pot worked with millions of Europeans, the idea we can import endless millions of aliens, legal and illegal, from every culture, clime, creed, and continent on earth, and still remain a country, is absurd. To save America the first imperative is to remove from power the ideologues of both parties who have nearly killed our country. In his final chapter, Buchanan lays out ideas to prevent the end of America. He calls for a bottom-up review of all of America's Cold War commitments, a ten-point program to secure America's borders, ideas to halt the erosion of our national sovereignty and restore our manufacturing preeminence and economic independence, and a formula for finding the way to a cold peace in the culture wars. Buchanan offers a radical but necessary program, for neither party is addressing the real crisis of America -- whether we survive as one nation and people, or disintegrate into what Theodore Roosevelt called a "tangle of squabbling nationalities" and not a nation at all. IN THIS EYE-OPENING BOOK, PAT BUCHANAN REVEALS THE PERILOUS PATH OUR NATION HAS TAKEN: - Pax Americana -- the era of U.S. global dominance -- is over. - A struggle for world hegemony among the United States, China, a resurgent Russia and radical Islam has begun. - Torn apart by a culture war, America has begun to Balkanize and break down along class, cultural, ethnic, and racial lines. - Free trade is hollowing out U.S. industry, destroying the dollar, and plunging the country into permanent dependency and unpayable debt. - One of every six U.S. manufacturing jobs vanished under Bush. - The Third World invasion through Mexico is a graver threat to U.S. survival than anything happening in Afghanistan or Iraq. ...IS OUR DAY OF RECKONING JUST AHEAD?
Power Greed And Hubris
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Author : James R. Crockett
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2013-12-17
Power Greed And Hubris written by James R. Crockett and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-17 with Political Science categories.
From 2003 to 2009 sensational judicial bribery scandals rocked Mississippi's legal system. Famed trial lawyers Paul Minor and Richard (Dickie) Scruggs and renowned judge and former prosecutor Bobby DeLaughter proved to be the nexus of these scandals. Seven attorneys and a former state auditor were alleged to have attempted to bribe or to have actually bribed five state judges to rule in favor of Minor and Scruggs in several lawsuits. This is the story of how federal authorities, following up on information provided by a bank examiner and a judge who could not be bribed, toppled Minor, Scruggs, and their enablers in what was exposed as the most significant legal scandal of twenty-first-century Mississippi. James R. Crockett details the convoluted schemes that eventually put three of the judges, six of the attorneys, and the former auditor in federal prison. All of the men involved were successful professionals and three of them, Minor, Scruggs, and fellow attorney Joey Langston, were exceptionally wealthy. The stories involve power, greed, but most of all hubris. The culprits rationalized abominable choices and illicit actions to influence judicial decisions. The crimes came to light in those six years, but some crimes were committed before that. These men put themselves above the law and produced the perfect storm of bribery that ended in disgrace. The tales Crockett relates about these scandals and the actions of Paul Minor and Richard Scruggs are almost unbelievable. Individuals willingly became their minions in power plays designed to distort the very rule of law that most of them had sworn to uphold.
Crash Of The Titans
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Author : Greg Farrell
language : en
Publisher: Crown Currency
Release Date : 2010-11-02
Crash Of The Titans written by Greg Farrell and has been published by Crown Currency this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-02 with Business & Economics categories.
The intimate, fly-on-the wall tale of the decline and fall of an America icon With one notable exception, the firms that make up what we know as Wall Street have always been part of an inbred, insular culture that most people only vaguely understand. The exception was Merrill Lynch, a firm that revolutionized the stock market by bringing Wall Street to Main Street, setting up offices in far-flung cities and towns long ignored by the giants of finance. With its “thundering herd” of financial advisers, perhaps no other business, whether in financial services or elsewhere, so epitomized the American spirit. Merrill Lynch was not only “bullish on America,” it was a big reason why so many average Americans were able to grow wealthy by investing in the stock market. Merrill Lynch was an icon. Its sudden decline, collapse, and sale to Bank of America was a shock. How did it happen? Why did it happen? And what does this story of greed, hubris, and incompetence tell us about the culture of Wall Street that continues to this day even though it came close to destroying the American economy? A culture in which the CEO of a firm losing $28 billion pushes hard to be paid a $25 million bonus. A culture in which two Merrill Lynch executives are guaranteed bonuses of $30 million and $40 million for four months’ work, even while the firm is struggling to reduce its losses by firing thousands of employees. Based on unparalleled sources at both Merrill Lynch and Bank of America, Greg Farrell’s Crash of the Titans is a Shakespearean saga of three flawed masters of the universe. E. Stanley O’Neal, whose inspiring rise from the segregated South to the corner office of Merrill Lynch—where he engineered a successful turnaround—was undone by his belief that a smooth-talking salesman could handle one of the most difficult jobs on Wall Street. Because he enjoyed O’Neal’s support, this executive was allowed to build up an astonishing $30 billion position in CDOs on the firm’s balance sheet, at a time when all other Wall Street firms were desperately trying to exit the business. After O’Neal comes John Thain, the cerebral, MIT-educated technocrat whose rescue of the New York Stock Exchange earned him the nickname “Super Thain.” He was hired to save Merrill Lynch in late 2007, but his belief that the markets would rebound led him to underestimate the depth of Merrill’s problems. Finally, we meet Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis, a street fighter raised barely above the poverty line in rural Georgia, whose “my way or the highway” management style suffers fools more easily than potential rivals, and who made a $50 billion commitment over a September weekend to buy a business he really didn’t understand, thus jeopardizing his own institution. The merger itself turns out to be a bizarre combination of cultures that blend like oil and water, where slick Wall Street bankers suddenly find themselves reporting to a cast of characters straight out of the Beverly Hillbillies. BofA’s inbred culture, which perceived New York banks its enemies, was based on loyalty and a good-ol’-boy network in which competence played second fiddle to blind obedience. Crash of the Titans is a financial thriller that puts you in the theater as the historic events of the financial crisis unfold and people responsible for billion of dollars of other people’s money gamble recklessly to enhance their power and their paychecks or to save their own skins. Its wealth of never-before-revealed information and focus on two icons of corporate America make it the book that puts together all the pieces of the Wall Street disaster.
The Intoxication Of Power
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Author : Peter Garrard
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2015-10-28
The Intoxication Of Power written by Peter Garrard and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-28 with Business & Economics categories.
Leadership Hubris has been blamed for the failures that arose in the wake of the second Iraq war and the global economic crisis that followed the banking bail-outs between 2008 and 2010. The Intoxication of Power, with a Preface by Lord David Owen, is a collection of contributions from thirteen authors who are business leaders, neuroscientists, psychologists and others from various academic disciplines. The contributors all share a concern for the development and understanding of the nature and origins of leadership hubris, and of ways in which its negative consequences might be mitigated. The book originated from discussions and papers presented at conferences held by the Daedalus Trust, an educational charity fostering interdisciplinary research into hubris and other challenges to organizational well-being.
House Of Cards
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Author : William D. Cohan
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2009-03-10
House Of Cards written by William D. Cohan and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-10 with Business & Economics categories.
A blistering narrative account of the negligence and greed that pushed all of Wall Street into chaos and the country into a financial crisis. At the beginning of March 2008, the monetary fabric of Bear Stearns, one of the world’s oldest and largest investment banks, began unraveling. After ten days, the bank no longer existed, its assets sold under duress to rival JPMorgan Chase. The effects would be felt nationwide, as the country suddenly found itself in the grip of the worst financial mess since the Great Depression. William Cohan exposes the corporate arrogance, power struggles, and deadly combination of greed and inattention, which led to the collapse of not only Bear Stearns but the very foundations of Wall Street.
The Psychology Of Power
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Author : Jaap van Ginneken
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2014-01-01
The Psychology Of Power written by Jaap van Ginneken and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-01 with Political Science categories.
The author tests the hypothesis that hubris and the Bathsheba syndrome tend to affect all top leaders, by zooming in on the best known and very highest executives of our own day and age, and examines the psychological forces tugging at the top level of political leadership.
Power Incompetence And Hubris
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Author : Nathanael J. Fast
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Power Incompetence And Hubris written by Nathanael J. Fast and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.
Power Greed
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Author : Philip Deane
language : en
Publisher: London : Constable
Release Date : 2002
Power Greed written by Philip Deane and has been published by London : Constable this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
What has driven human beings throughout history? This lively, fascinating book deals with the nature of human greed and the eternal quest for power that, in every era and culture, has determined the outcome of world events. In a fast track through time, Gigantès introduces on the one hand the great rule-makers for a just society, such as Moses, Solon, Jesus and Muhammad, and on the other, the rule-breakers, or the 'Grand Acquisitors'. The latter use every trick to get more than their fair share - from the warring chieftains of early societies to the robber barons of the nineteenth century and, in our own times, the emergence of the superpower states. Gigantès examines the dramatic consequences of their actions, from Crusades, revolutions and the conquering of continents, to wars, recent events in the US and a world that is turning more and more into a global village.
Overweening
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Author : Sudip Kumar Das
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2024-04-17
Overweening written by Sudip Kumar Das and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-17 with Self-Help categories.
Chapter 1: The Rise to Power Introducing key figures who have wielded significant power throughout history. Examining the allure of power and the characteristics that drive individuals to pursue it. Exploring historical examples of leaders who rose to power through ambition, charisma, and manipulation. Discussing the consequences of unchecked ambition and the early signs of overweening hubris. Chapter 2: The Seduction of Authority Analyzing how power can corrupt individuals and distort their sense of morality. Investigating the psychological effects of authority and its impact on decision-making. Exploring case studies of leaders who became intoxicated by their own power, leading to ethical lapses and abuses. Discussing the role of sycophants and enablers in fueling overweening hubris within powerful circles. Chapter 3: The Height of Hubris Examining pivotal moments in history where overweening hubris led to downfall or disaster. Analyzing the arrogance and recklessness that often accompany unchecked power. Discussing examples of leaders who believed themselves to be invincible, only to be humbled by reality. Exploring the psychological barriers that prevent individuals from recognizing their own hubris until it's too late. Chapter 4: The Fall from Grace Tracing the downfall of leaders whose hubris led to their undoing. Examining the consequences of overreaching and overconfidence in political, military, and corporate contexts. Discussing the mechanisms through which power can become self-destructive, leading to personal and systemic collapse. Analyzing the aftermath of hubris-driven failures and the lessons to be learned from them. Chapter 5: Resilience and Redemption Exploring stories of individuals who confronted their own hubris and sought redemption. Discussing the importance of humility, self-awareness, and accountability in overcoming the pitfalls of power. Examining strategies for preventing overweening hubris in oneself and others. Reflecting on the enduring relevance of these lessons in contemporary society and leadership.
