Corporate Catalyst

Tony Griffiths 지음

Wiley 2012년 03월 05일 출간

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An inside look at the real business worldIn Corporate Catalyst, Tony Griffiths gives readers a ringside seat on the many boardroom and corporate battles that he both fought and witnessed through the nearly six decades of his productive and colorful career. Among other stories, Griffiths replays his two stints as the CEO of Canada's darling of the telecom industry, Mitel Corporation. The first was in the late 1980s, a time when he helped staunch the flow of red ink and returned the company to profitability. The second was in the early 1990s, when he steered the company through its majority ownership by British Telecom and then its sale to Schroder Ventures. As Griffiths relates it, he had to learn how to deal with the bureaucratic style of the former and the power-hungry moves of the latter.Corporate Catalyst includes the author's blow-by-blow account of what went on inside Confederation Life in the 1980s and early 1990s-a story that should have prevented the failure of the likes of Lehman Brothers in the recent Great Recession. Griffiths, who had his hands full at the time with challenges at Mitel, also sat on Confed's board. He tried to warn Confederation Life's executives and his fellow board members of the financial dangers the company was facing. No one but a few other board members would listen-and even they did not do so consistently. The fall of Confed Life became one of the largest failures of a major finance company in corporate history.Griffiths takes the reader on a dramatic tour of the trickery, betrayal, and politicking that the world of business seems to attract. He introduces readers to the biggest and boldest names in Canadian business, including Jake Moore of Brascan, Robert Campeau of Campeau Corporation, Terry Mathews of Mitel, Ted Rogers of Rogers Communications, Conrad Black of Hollinger, Adam Zimmerman of Noranda, Pat Burns of Confederation Life, and Christopher Ondaatje of The Ondaatje Corporation.

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Acknowledgements IXNote to the Reader XI1 From an Old World to a New: 1896&~1956 12 My Next Education, 1956&~1960 153 I Cut My Teeth on Glass, 1960&~1968 234 Looking Past Glass, 1969&~1971 355 From Candy Mergers to Cable Mergers, 1971&~1974 496 Cable Wars Go Public, 1973&~1977 677 Oral Assurances, 1977&~1979 898 Trolling for Takeovers, 1975&~1978 1099 Weaving a Recovery, 1979&~1982 12110 From Supergun to Handgun, or Down and Out in L. A., 1979&~1984 13711 Crisis at Mitel and then British Telecom Calls, 1984&~1987 15312 From Provincial Bailout to Financial Collection, 1987 18313 Extraordinary Financial Escapades, 1987&~1990 19514 Mitel: Second Time Around, 1987&~1991 21515 British Imperialism Enters the Boardroom, 1992&~1993 23316 A New-World Colonial: The Ondaatje Corporation, 1992&~1995 25717 Catalyst for Change: The Saga of Confederation Life, 1989&~1994 28118 In Closing: What To Do When Faced with a Company in Trouble 305Appendix: Board Membership 315Endnotes 319Index 327

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Anthony quot;Tonyquot; Griffiths was born in Rangoon, Burma, and educated in the U.S. and Canada. He holds an MBA from Harvard. He is the chairman of Russel Metals, Inc. and Novadaq Technologies Inc., a director of Vitran Corp., Fairfax Financial, Gedex Inc., Jaguar Mining Inc., and The Brick Group. Previous directorships include Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc., Canadian Cablesystems, Canadian Tire, Consumers Packaging, Harding Carpets, Hub International Ltd., Leitch Technology Corp., Shaw Communications, and Slater Steelm-and, once upon a time, even the Edmonton Oilers. Tony and his wife Penny reside in Toronto.