Books: The Smartest Guys in Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron

The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron Classic story of the excesses and wild, wild west business attitudes that prevailed in the 1990’s and early 2000’s. ENRON wasn’t the only corporation to play by rules that they created on the fly but were possibly the most public and damaging. Through the actions of the ENRON’s and WorldCom’s of the business world came changes in financial reporting, recognition of revenue, and corporate executive accountability. The numerous ENRON executives played by rules that they made with jaw-dropping audacity and ultimately led to the collapse of a major corporation and the public accounting firm that allowed the rules to be broken.

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About Tod Kerr

Tod is a senior corporate leader with 20 years of experience managing business operations in numerous functional areas, with a focus on developing and marketing business to business technology solutions to world-wide high tech markets that allow customers to operate their business more efficiently by driving out costs, improving productivity, and creating value for their clients.
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