INTRODUCTION
Several years ago, I was on a duck-boat tour of Miami with my wife and kids when my cell phone rang. The call was from a “Master of the Universe” investor who suffers no fools, so I sheepishly asked the driver to pull over.
“I’ll meet you back at the hotel,” I assured my family as I stepped off the vehicle. I gave a wave as the boat rolled into the crystal blue water of Biscayne Bay, and then I turned my attention to the call.
“I need you to figure out what is going on at [let’s call it Company X],” the investor said to me without so much as a hello. “And I need to know by the end of the week.”
In less than two years since Company X’s board of directors shelled out tens of millions to remove the incumbent CEO and replace him with ...
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