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...Mahbubani, dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, is author of The New Asian Hemisphere...
...author of Will China Fail?, is the foreign policy fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies in Sydney and a visiting fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington...
Because the author was a would-be Madoff whistle-blower, you might expect his anger to be pointed at the Ponzi king. In fact, the unrelenting Markopolos aims it at the Securities and Exchange Commission. For 10 years, the author, a quantitative analyst, tried unsuccessfully to convince the agency that Madoff was a crook. When the latter's racket was revealed in 2008, says Markopolos, "it was exactly as I had warned the government of the United States approximately $55 billion earlier...
Being the Cassandra in a scandal is no fun. At least give the author a starring role in the Madoff movie...
Shaunti Feldhahn, the author of The Male Factor: The Unwritten Rules, Misperceptions, and Secret Beliefs of Men in the Workplace (Broadway), takes a different tack. Feldhahn, a syndicated columnist, has surveyed and interviewed more than 3,000 men, including many C-level executives, granting them anonymity in exchange for frank boy talk. Among her findings: men are better able to compartmentalize what she calls "Work World" and "Personal World." Men report that "at work, the personal world goes away." Women who don't follow that precept and take things personally are deemed "emotional" and "high maintenance." Says Feldhahn: "I found...