Finalist
Book Title:Corporate Trauma: The toxic legacy of a crisis
Author:John Oliver
Published:2025
How is your book helping others?
"Corporate Trauma: The toxic legacy of a crisis" provides a groundbreaking "Big Idea" that shifts the blame for organizational failure away from individual leaders and toward the hidden scars left by a past crisis. By introducing the concept of "Corporate Epigenetics," Prof. John Oliver helps leaders and employees understand how a single traumatic event - such as a hostile takeover, a pandemic, or a massive PR scandal - can embed dysfunctional patterns into a company’s "DNA" that persist for generations. This book helps others by providing a vocabulary and a diagnostic framework for "unresolved organizational trauma" allowing CEOs to stop fighting symptoms and start healing the root cause of low morale and stagnant productivity. Ultimately, Prof. Oliver’s work empowers the global business community to break the cycle of "toxic legacies," fostering healthier, more resilient workplaces where trust can finally be restored.