The Rebellious CEO: 12 Leaders Who Did It Right -- Ralph Nader, Hardcover

One of corporate America's greatest foes shows how 12 CEOs he has known uniquely rejected narrow yardsticks of shareholder value by leading companies to larger models of prosperity and justice

Over the course of 7 decades Ralph Nader has been Corporate America's fiercest critic. Supreme Court Justice William Powell singled out Nader in his infamous memo as the "single most effective antagonist of American business... [the] target of his hatred... is corporate power."

But now, in a book that will surprise both his fans and critics, Nader profiles a small group of CEOs who he believes performed extraordinarily well as business leaders and civic reformers, some well-known, some not, who should be celebrated as exceptions whose life and career should be a course of emulation and inspiration for students of business, executives and the wider citizenry.

This select group of mavericks and iconoclasts -- which includes The Body Shop's Anita Roddick, Patagonia's Yvon Chouinard, Vanguard's John Bogle and Busboys and Poets' Andy Shallal --give us, Nader writes, "a sense of what might have been and what still could be if business were rigorously framed as a process that was not only about making money and selling things but improving our social and natural world."

Author: Ralph Nader
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Published: 11/14/2023
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781685891077

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/25/2023
Foreword 10/27/2023