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Bosses from Hell

BY Fast Company Staff
Relevancy Score: 96

A rogue's gallery of the manipulative, abusive, grandiose -- and downright crooked -- executives who have strutted their way across the stage of American business.READ»

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Is Your Boss a Psychopath?

BY Alan Deutschman
Relevancy Score: 81

Odds are you've run across one of these characters in your career. They're glib, charming, manipulative, deceitful, ruthless -- and very, very destructive. And there may be lots of them in America's corner offices.READ»

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Working for the Boss From Hell

BY John A. Byrne
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This month's letter from the editor.READ»

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Behind the Scandals: Men at Work

BY Shoshana Zuboff
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Recent business scandals have less to do with corrupt individuals than a narcissistic--and male--organizational culture.READ»

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Be Vewwy Quiet! I'm Hunting for Excuses!

BY Fast Company Staff
Relevancy Score: 31

Ken Lay might want to rethink his "I was fooled" defense, because it's the same one used--unsuccessfully--by former WorldCom exec Bernie Ebbers, who was found guilty on nine counts of fraud today and now faces up to 85 years in ...READ»

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Conspiracy of Fools

BY Fast Company Staff
Relevancy Score: 30

Kurt Eichenwald's new book on the Enron scandals, Conspiracy of Fools, is being published today. It's richly-detailed and highly illuminating. Eichenwald portrays the debacle as an explosive combination of crime and incompetence. He ...READ»

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The Women of Enron

BY Jennifer Reingold
Relevancy Score: 25

Four women, four experiences: before, during, and after the Enron debacle.READ»

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The Women of Enron : The Best Revenge

BY Jennifer Reingold
Relevancy Score: 23

Regrets? Hardly. For Sherron Watkins, life since Enron imploded has gotten a whole lot better.READ»

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One Down: How Many More to Go?

BY Fast Company Staff
Relevancy Score: 20

In getting ex-Enron treasurer Ben Glisan to plead guilty yesterday, the feds nailed the first Enron crook. Glisan, 37, was sentenced to five years in jail and three years of probation. How many more Enron thieves are likely to go? ...READ»

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The Jeff Skilling Interview That Never Ran

BY Chuck Salter
Relevancy Score: 19

"I'm the chief sheepherder." That's how Jeff Skilling described his role as Enron's CEO to me back in 2001. This was several months before the Enron empire began to crumble. I was working on a piece about the role of teaching in ...READ»

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Master of Deception

BY Linda Tischler
Relevancy Score: 16

Police veteran Dennis Marlock has written the book (several of them, actually) on scams, cons, frauds -- all shapes and sizes of street-level deception. Which makes him an expert witness to what's gone wrong in the executive suites of corporate America. Does everyone lie? Aren't we too smart to get conned? Some honest talk about dishonest business.READ»

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The Art of Work

BY Ann Marsh
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What would happen if the best moments of your life happened at the office? That would be "flow," and thanks to a guy with an unpronounceable name, more and more businesses want to know about it.READ»

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Parma-Splat! An Opera In Way Too Many Acts

BY Ian Wylie
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Enron and WorldCom introduced us to the high art of massive fraud. But Parmalat and its former chief executive, Calisto Tanzi, have elevated the form to epic tragicomedy.READ»

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Wall Street's Den of Thieves

BY John Ellis
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If you follow the trail of deceit from Enron to its natural lair, it only leads to one destination: Wall Street. Here's why.READ»

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What If You'd Worked at Enron?

BY Charles Fishman
Relevancy Score: 9

We've all heard the same Enron story: executives at the top behaving badly, victims at the bottom losing their savings. But the truth is in the middle.READ»