In Toshiba scandal, the ‘tough as nails’ target setter
Tom Scott, a former U.S. executive at Toshiba Corp, remembers his former boss Atsutoshi Nishida as an aggressive leader. “He gave me goals that scared the hell out of me,” Scott told Reuters after Nishida resigned as an adviser to Toshiba. He further described him as “tough as nails, maybe a little like Patton in World War 2, but an honourable guy”. It was this leadership style that propelled his rise to the top of Toshiba, but now, it’s come under scrutiny over how the nuclear-to-laptops conglomerate was engulfed in one of Japan’s worst corporate scandals…
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