Testosterone Inc.: Tales of CEOs Gone Wild

by Christopher M. Byron and Christopher M Byron

Book Overview

In Testosterone Inc.: Tales of CEOs Gone Wild, bestselling author and New York Post columnist Chris Byron chronicles the Gatsby-like saga of the rise and fall of the celebrity CEO. During the height... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471420050
• ISBN13: 9780471420057
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

It Doesn't Get Better!

At long last! Someone has taken the time to write a definitive and authoritative text on the abusive and destructive leadership of a few heralded CEOs from a (hopefully) bygone era. The research in this book is superb. It is exhaustive and painstaking in its determination to be fact-based, detailed and accurate. I think the author and his team deserve gold medals for truth seeking, accuracy, insightful observation and analysis. Thank you, Mr. Byron, for knowing who to go after, and for having a sense of humor as you do.

This book is a scream!!!

Much needed antidote to all of those nauseating Jack Welch cheerleaders that we had to endure during the bubble and afterward. This book is funny and entertaining. My favorite part is when Jack Welch gets drunk for a party thrown in his honor as the new CEO of GE. Amazing! For their "trophy wives", these guys paid more in their divorce settlements than even a very lucky CEO could could make in his whole career. Kudos to Byron for finally exploding the Jack Welch myth.

CEO's Exposed!

I found it amazing to read the tales of these so-called "industry leaders" who may indeed be leaders in the boardroom, but surely not on the homefront. Granted some of these tales are not new, but this book still manages to satisfy the insatiable desire for gossip with more detail than we've heard through the media in many instances, all the while making you stop and seriously think about how all this "wild" behavior affects your investments in the companies the CEO's represent.

Ohmygoodness!

Amazing, hilarious, and downright scary!! The behavior of the men who ran the world in the 1990s exposed from the Oval Office to the corner office. Apparently these guys were most interested in getting more money for themselves, more power, and laid more -- by women other than their wives. How sad that this behavior was masked or applauded and got a free pass from the press. What is so noble about giving the market what it wants while treating so many with such disrespect whether from layoffs or abusive treatment of employees? That's not providing shareholder value but simply lining the pockets of a few at the expense of many. Byron should get a medal for exposing men in power behaving badly. No wonder the 1990s ended in such a bust.

The Dish on the deals, the debauchery, and the dysfunction!

As a fan of Christopher Byron's prior book, Martha Inc. and his New York Post column, I anxiously awaited the publication of Testosterone Inc. I was not disappointed. I absolutely loved this book !!! It is a total page-turner. I read it in 2 days. The rise and fall of the American CEO is a culturally defining moment and no one tells the story better than Christopher Byron. The money, the women, the greed ... while we were admiring these "all powerful CEOs", they were acting like drunken frat boys behind our backs. Thank you Christopher Byron for telling us the inside story - the very entertaining yet very scary true story.