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Brian Cruver first joined the "Fatality Star," Enron's office organic, in March 2001. He was twenty-nine years of age, an eager MBA prepared to cash in as a fresh hire with one of America's most highly valued companies. But, from his first day—when his new supervisor warned him, "there was a mix-up in the hiring process," but that it was "no big package...just think of it like you're adopted"—to his last, when he and his colleagues were given thirty minutes to leave the building, Cruver found himself enmeshed in a company cult that daily grew only more bizarre.With dark humor and page-turning momentum, Cruver lays out firsthand: the giddy group-think nurtured by Enron's leadership, whose incessant cheerleading for the business's stock price rendered many Enronians unable to believe that they were regularly being spoon-fed sits; the "rank and yank" peer review process that fostered horse-trading among managers over which employees would get poor evaluations; the traders who made dubious offers to ensure their own rewarding bonuses; and the sinister designs and money of Enron's deceptive off-the-books partnerships. As Cruver probes the sleazy escapades that Enron executives milked for personal gain, he presents us, up close and personal, to such storied information as Ken Place, Jeff Skilling, and Andy Fastow, along with other important Enron personalities like Rebecca Make; Lou Pai; Thomas White, George W. Bush's Secretary of the Army; Joe Sutton; the "Mr. Blue," a disillusioned Enron exec; and Cruver's trading floor neighbor, a machine he christened "Sherman the Shredder"—who was always working overtime.Cruver's day-by-day chronicle, with a jogging stock ticker to show the trajectory of Enron's collapse, is instantly reminiscent of such bestsellers as Liar's Texas holdem and Barbarians at the Gate. Told in a brand new, empathetic speech, Anatomy of Greed is brimming with grist for politics pundits and comic relief for subjects of corporate security damage. Additionally it is the personal report of a exec, a Houston native, whose desire job and desire company crashed around him in an avalanche of lays and greed. From your wreckage, this newly solidified veteran of the corporate wars has written a cautionary tale that our leaders must heed—or imperil us all to future disasters.
