Born in 1960, Michael Woodford grew up in Liverpool, and after
moving to the south of England spent the next 30 years of his
professional life working at Olympus. In April 2011 he was
appointed President of the Olympus Corporation - the first Western
'salary-man' to rise through the ranks to the top of a Japanese
giant. That October he was also made CEO, but only two weeks later
was dismissed after querying inexplicable payments approaching $2
billion.
Woodford was named Business Person of the Year 2011 by the Sunday
Times, the Independent and the Sun, and in 2012 he won the
Financial Times ArcelorMittal Award for Boldness in Business. In
2013 he was the winner of the inaugural Contrarian Prize.
Woodford is married with two teenage children and lives in London.
He now spends his life writing and lecturing on business culture,
and the frailties of human nature in the workplace.
The business book of the year has to be Michael Woodford's
Exposure
*Evening Standard*
The most celebrated international whistleblower of recent times...
his story is filled with mystery, suspense, duplicity and
betrayal
*Management Today*
A sensational account of a man of great courage and principle who
got to the top, and blew the whistle to glorious effect. In the
corporate world Woodford is too rare and exceptional a breed.
*Channel 4 News*
A must-read for businesspeople, politicians and would-be movers and
shakers
*Bloomberg*
The kind of integrity and courage that Woodford displayed is
unusual.
*The Economist*
Michael Woodford took a considerable risk in exposing wrongdoing.
He was a study of boldness in action
*Financial Times*
Woodford tells his tale like a thriller. A fine book by a fine man
who did the right thing.
*The Times*
In a world increasingly dominated by global multinationals, he just
felt someone had to speak out
*Sunday Times*
Michael Woodford has proven himself a hero, though he never wanted
the battle. He risked everything
*Clive Stafford Smith, Founder and Director, Reprieve*
A gripping chronicle by a corporate whistle-blower who achieved a
stunning victory
*Kirkus*
He is one of the few foreign businessmen to have penetrated deep
inside a Japanese corporation and to report back unflinchingly on
what he saw. What he found was not pretty
*Financial Times*
Woodford has emerged as a hero, named by at least one British
newspaper as its 2011 executive of the year. And rightly so. His
gift for candor, so evident as a whistle-blower, serves him well as
a memoirist.
*The New York Times*
Michael Woodford could have spent years turning a blind eye to the
shady dealings of executives at Olympus. Instead he dove headfirst
into allegations of corporate misconduct
*Time*
This memoir of one of Japan's biggest business scandals is for more
than corporate governance experts, with its fascinating tale of
good versus evil
*Japan Times*
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