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Exposure by Michael Woodford
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Exposure

From President to Whistleblower at Olympus
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Narrator Roy McMillan

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Length 8 hours 4 minutes
Language English
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The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Michael Woodford's autobiographical account, Exposure: Inside the Olympus Scandal, read by Roy McMillan.

Shortly after Michael Woodford was made President and CEO of Olympus, his dream job turned into a nightmare. After discovering a series of bizarre mergers and acquisitions deals totalling $1.7 billion, he turned to his fellow executives and within weeks he was fired in a boardroom coup that shocked the international business world. Woodford went straight to the press - becoming the first CEO of a multinational to blow the whistle on his own company. Exposure is a deeply personal memoir that reads like a thriller.

Michael Woodford grew up in Liverpool and joined Olympus as a medical equipment salesman, rising through the ranks to run its UK, MEA and European businesses. In April 2011 he was appointed President and COO 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 made CEO, but only two weeks later was dismissed after querying inexplicable payments approaching $2 billion. He was named Business Person of the Year 2011 by the Sunday Times, the Independent and the Sun, and won the Financial Times Arcelor-Mittal Award for Boldest Businessperson of the Year. He lives in London with his wife and two teenage children.

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Reviews

Woodford's story has the hallmarks of a John Grisham novel. A brilliantly gripping book, with a great hero at its heart. The kind of integrity and courage that Woodford displayed is unusual. Woodford tells his tale like a thriller. A fine book by a fine man who did the right thing. 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. Michael Woodford took a considerable risk in exposing wrongdoing. He was a study of boldness in action The most celebrated international whistleblower of recent times... his story is filled with mystery, suspense, duplicity and betrayal The business book of the year has to be Michael Woodford's Exposure In a world increasingly dominated by global multinationals, he just felt someone had to speak out He lost his job for his integrity Michael Woodford has proven himself a hero, though he never wanted the battle. He risked everything A gripping chronicle by a corporate whistle-blower who achieved a stunning victory 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 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. Expand reviews
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