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    Good for the Money: My Fight to Pay Back America
    Good for the Money: My Fight to Pay Back America
    Good for the Money: My Fight to Pay Back America
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    Good for the Money: My Fight to Pay Back America

    Written by Bob Benmosche

    Narrated by Sean Pratt

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    In 2009, at the peak of the financial crisis, AIG - the American insurance behemoth - was sinking fast. It was the peg upon which the nation hung its ire and resentment during the financial crisis: the pinnacle of Wall Street arrogance and greed. When Bob Benmosche climbed aboard as CEO, it was widely assumed that he would go down with his ship. In mere months, he turned things around, pulling AIG from the brink of financial collapse and restoring its profitability. Before three years were up, AIG had fully repaid its staggering debt to the U.S. government - with interest.

    Good for the Money is an unyielding leader's memoir of a career spent fixing companies through thoughtful, unconventional strategy. With his brash, no-holds-barred approach to the job, Benmosche restored AIG's employee morale and good name. His is a story of perseverance, told with refreshing irreverence in unpretentious terms.

    Called "an American hero" by Andrew Ross Sorkin, author of Too Big to Fail, Benmosche was a self-made man who never forgot what life is like for the nation's 99-percent; again and again, he pushed back against obstinate colleagues to salvage American jobs and industry. Good for the Money affords you a front-row seat for Benmosche's heated battles with major players from Geithner to Obama to Cuomo, and offers incomparable lessons in leadership from the legendary CEO who changed the way Wall Street does business.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAscent Audio
    Release dateMay 10, 2016
    ISBN9781469003771
    Good for the Money: My Fight to Pay Back America
    Author

    Bob Benmosche

    BOB BENMOSCHE was President and CEO of AIG from 2009 to 2014 and pioneered policies that saved the company from bankruptcy, enabling it to repay its debts to the government within three years. He was instrumental in taking MetLife - where he worked for 11 years, as COO and CEO - public. Once a top executive at Paine Webber and at Chase Manhattan, Benmosche was also a U.S. army veteran.

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      Loved the candid book- Focus on getting things done! Of course, also be good with numbers. Learned a lot about leadership, be a good listener and rally your troops and take responsibility- Benmosche is a real doer and it is unfortunate that he is no longer with us but his lessons will continue to produce much fruit. Finally, it is a nice read about how AIG was overvillified. Great book overall!