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Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower
John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Feb 2008, Pages: 416
Written in an autobiographical style, this book examines one woman's journey from rural Mississippi to being Time magazine's person of the year in 2002. It shows how her faith and ethics provided her the moral compass to help expose one of the largest corporate frauds in U.S. history. The tentative outline is: My Personal Story; Identifying and Reporting the Fraud; Behind the Scenes; The Whistleblower; Search for Counsel; Time Person of the Year; U.S. v. Ebbers; Final Verdict; Personal Lessons Learned; Business Lessons Learned.
In Extraordinary Circumstances, former WorldCom Chief Audit Executive Cynthia Cooper recounts for the first time her journey from her close family upbringing in a small Mississippi town, to working motherhood and corporate success, to the pressures of becoming a whistleblower, to being named one of Time's 2002 Persons of the Year. Candidly written, this book makes it clear that the tone set at the top is critical to fostering an ethical environment in the workplace. Provocative, moving, and intensely personal, Extraordinary Circumstances is a wake-up call to corporate leaders and an intimate glimpse at a scandal that shook the business world.
About the Author
Cynthia Cooper was one of Time's 2002 Persons of the Year. She was the vice president of internal audit for WorldCom and subsequently MCI. Cynthia was featured as one of twenty-five influential working mothers in Working Mother, and earned the distinction of being the first woman to receive the AAA Accounting Exemplar Award and to be inducted into the AICPA Business & Industry Hall of Fame. Cooper resigned from MCI in 2004, following the company's successful emergence from bankruptcy, and now shares the lessons she has learned through her experiences with professionals and students. She and her husband Lance reside in Mississippi with their two daughters.
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