Corporate Vices: What's gone wrong with business?

"…overall this is a very enjoyable book to read…if the book gets you thinking about your own excesses it can’t be a bad thing…" (Ps.advisor)

"…A hard hitting and uncompromising style. Self-tests that challenge the way you view your business and make you question your own practises. A positive tone that encourages you not to make the same mistakes…" (Internet Works, January 2003)

'The book is an addictive read...' (Venture, March 2003)

"…He offers practical and thoughtful solutions…Buy it…" (Marketing Is Everything Vol. 1, No. 2, 2003)

"Savanorola meets Groucho meets Warren Buffett. This book is a great read, with something to infuriate everyone. Charles Cohen first takes pot shots at the flavour-of-the-month corporate vices: dubious accounting, executive greed, and value-destroying acquisitions. But he also goes for politically correct trends such as touchy-feely HR policies and corporate social responsibility. Leaving almost no turn unstoned, he puts some more sideswipes into advertising, IT, and managers' fixation with the macroeconomy. Behind all this knockabout stuff is a simple back-to-basics message: business is about underlying productivity, it's hard work, and there are no big short cuts." (Prof Patrick Barwise, Prof of Marketing at the London Business School.)

"It was a quite extraordinary moment when I began to read this, one of those moments when the hairs tingle on your neck and you start nodding to yourself, talking out loud and wondering if you're reading something you have written yourself but can't remember when ..going 'Absolutely' and 'I couldn't agree more'.

Quite frankly I'm just amazed that anyone is surprised 'corporate governance', 'alignment of the energy'and the quaint stuff like 'trust' and 'respect' in business has taken so long to get here, people have been getting screwed by the age old structures for so long and Charles' refreshing and 'been there' reality truly hits home." (John Caswell, CEO of Group Partners)

"Charles Cohen has hit the nail firmly on the head. His ten corporate vices are loaded with common sense and right on the money." (Dan Wagner, founder of MAID plc and Venda).