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(From Financial Director)
Mario Puzo's The Godfather is one of the most unexpected books on management practice and corporate governance to be published. In between the violence, murder and decapitated horses, it describes the establishment of the business empire of Don Vito Corleone, a poor Sicilian immigrant in New York. Don Corleone uses strong man management skills - and a little boardroom bullying - to build the biggest olive oil company in the US, with interests in gambling, racketeering and corruption off-balance sheet.
But his competitors start to team up against him; a threat from overseas puts pressure on him to change his business model; ...