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When Jim Crawford, the flamboyant Chairman of Electronics company, Ayot plc, launches a hostile bid for old-fashioned Byfield plc it is at first appears just another example of market forces dictating the survival of the fittest, irrespective of the human cost. But it soon becomes apparent that Crawford has another motivation: an old score to settle with Byfield's Chairman, John Parker. When things get personal cool business sense is the first business casualty. Takeover gives an exhilarating view of how business really works at board level and sounds a salutary warning to acquisition-hungry businesses: if you think acquisitions are an easy route to growth, think again. Takeover is essential reading for everybody interested in business and how the financial world works. Ride the takeover roundabout and experience the excitement of success and the grim reality of the terrible financial and human cost when things go wrong Treason doth prosper, what the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason. Sir John Harington, Epigrams, 1618

Table of Contents:
PART ONE. The River. PART TWO. Downstream. PART THREE. The Weir. Business Today.

About the Author :
PETER WAINE has worked for manufacturing companies and professional firms and has main board experience both as an executive and non-executive director of companies with turnover of up to GBP1bn. A former CBI director,he is co-founder of Hanson Green, a leading source for recruiting non-executive directors and chairmen. He is also co-author of The Independent Board Director, the acknowledged management book on non-executive directors. He is a Trustee of the Royal Opera House, a member of the International Cricket Council and is a former member of the Council of the European Business School, the Institute of Management and former Chairman of the Tree Council. He has also been a parliamentary candidate. MIKE WALKER has worked for radio and TV for many years, writing drama, documentary and educational broadcasts. His productions have received many awards, including: Royal TV Society Gold Medal, Sony Award for Best Play, Society of Authors Best Script Award, Writers Guild Award for Best Radio Adaptation and BAFTA & Sony nominations. His most recent works have been an award winning adaptation of Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby and adaptations of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace and Graham Swift's Booker Prize winning Last Orders. He is currently working on a stage play about Washington DC and his new play about Henry James will be broadcast this autumn. He is particularly interested in American history and has written plays about Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover. His BBC World Service drama, Westway has keen fans in 176 countries.

Review :
"Takeover is a suprisingly racy book. All this proceeds at a terrific rate of knots, with a neat extra twist as the deal is done - larger than life, perhaps, but well researched and wit a keen eye for the shifts and tremors of business life..it is highly entertaining stuff: well-informed, tongue-in-cheek and a great deal more interesting than the piles of financial thrillers stacked up in the average airport bookstall."--Sunday Times, 18th June 2000


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780471492221
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
  • Height: 224 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 145 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0471492221
  • Publisher Date: 30 May 2000
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 500 gr


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