The Emperor's Nightingale: Restoring The Integrity Of The Corporation In The Age Of Shareholder Activism

The Story

In The Emperor’s Nightingale, Robert Monks, the world’s foremosst shareholder activist, weaves together parables, case studies, and insights from complexity thinking to reveal the true character of the corporation, as it struggles to reconcile the opposing forces of certainty and uncertainty, the predictable and the serendipitous, and short-term profit versus long-term economic value rooted in the social good.