Five years after the death of Sergio Marchionne, Tommaso Ebhardt returned to bookshops with a long-awaited, updated and expanded edition of the bestseller about the manager who saved Fiat and Chrysler from extinction.
The author picked up the threads of the story by revisiting the protagonists of a revolutionary era, from John Elkann to Alfredo Altavilla, to friends in Toronto's Little Italy, in an ideal journey that starts in Turin and arrives at Amatrice via Detroit, in search of what remains of the Marchionne cyclone.
During the fourteen years of his leadership, he has more than tenfold increased the value of global group in the stock market. He has turned Fiat from an Italian company on the verge of bankruptcy to the world's sixth largest car company. He has stormed markets at the moment of the great economic crisis. He always thought big.
His choices, sometimes drastic, never taken for granted, have delighted investors, but have also attracted heavy criticisms, including shifting the company's centre of gravity away from Italy and trampling on workers' rights.
Who was Sergio Marchionne, visionary and divisive leader, and what remains of his legacy?
In this book, Tommaso Ebhardt - who literally chased him for ten years around the world, from Lingotto to Detroit, to Wall Street, to his home in Michigan - portrays a complex figure, who gradually reveals himself to the journalist in quick one-liners, rare interviews, several professional occasions and precious face-to-face meetings, with microphones turned off.
But above all, he investigates the deepest convictions, interests, and private feelings of a very reserved man, who nonetheless sometimes entrusted him with his thoughts, publicly recognising him as "his most affectionate stalker", and tries to understand the secret of a character that from an unknown outsider has become one of the most visionary managers of the new millennium.
New and updated edition.
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