September
2010
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Sydney Finkelstein, Forbes

Why Ken Lewis Destroyed Bank Of America

He committed two huge but all-too-common failures of leadership.

In 2001 Kenneth D. Lewis became chief executive officer of Bank of America. Starting with what he called a "blank sheet of paper" listing all the companies he wanted to acquire.

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$60 - $90 billion per year worth of “simple mistakes”?

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