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Description of Everyone Else Must Fail

Larry Ellison is one of the most successful and contraversial characters in today's business world.

With fierce drive and ambition, Ellison transformed Oracle from a struggling vendor of datbase software into the one of the largest software companies in the world, second only to Microsoft. Now that Bill Gates has stepped down from the CEO role at Microsodt, Ellison is the last remaining entrepreneurial pioneer still in day-to-day command of a major high-tech company.

But that's only half the story. Former Oracle executives interviewed for the book (including major software industry players like Ray Lane and Tom Siebel) reveal that Ellison's mania for absolute control and his inability to coexist with the very lieutenants who bring much needed stability to his company have brought Oracle to the brink of collapse before, and may well do again.

Everyone Else Must Fail - a sentiment that Ellison appropriated from Genghis Khan - tells the candid story of Ellison and Oracle, giving credit to Ellison's brilliance and devotion while sounding a warning about an ingenious man's tendancy to be his own company's worst enemy.

Title Information

ISBN:

9780712621489

Pages:

266 pages

Format:

Hardback

Product Code:

16514

Publisher:

Random House

Published:

30/11/-0001

Edition:

1st Edition

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About Karen Southwick

Karen Southwick is a freelance journalist. She has written three successful boook about the technology industry:

Silicon Gold Rush:The Next Generation of High-Tech Stars Rewrites the Rules of Business,

High Noon: The Inside Story of Scott McNealy and the Rise of Sun Microsystems and the

Kingmakers: Venture Capital and the Money Behind the Net. She's currently living in California.