Book details

  • Genre:business & economics
  • Sub-genre:Corporate & Business History
  • Language:English
  • Pages:232
  • eBook ISBN:9781934160039

Gelding Goliath

An Insider's Account of the Destruction of AT&T

By Dan Stark

Overview

Geding Goliath tells the story of the last days of the original AT&T before its purchase for scrap value by a competitor in 2005. Stark was a high ranking attorney for the company and was involved over the prior two decades in the various efforts to save the company. He goes through, naming names as he does, the four "Colossal Failures" that doomed the company.
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Description

Geding Goliath tells the story of the last days of the original AT&T before its purchase for scrap value by a competitor in 2005. Stark was a high ranking attorney for the company and was involved over the prior two decades in the various efforts to save the company. He goes through, naming names as he does, the four "Colossal Failures" that doomed the company.
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About The Author

Dan Stark was a successful lawyer for 27 years, the last 21 with AT&T, before he retired in 2004 in order to write. His three early stories about his fight with Parkinson's disease were all published in the Washington Post. He has published two books, has had two ex-wives and has two children. He is currently pondering the cosmic consequences of publishing a third book.
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