Going Going Ghosn

What could possibly go wrong for Brazilian-born Lebanese businessman, Carlos Ghosn, who ran two Fortune 500 companies, Renault and Nissan, successfully and whom Time magazine, as well as Fortune magazine, called the “most influential global business executive,” “ahead of Bill Gates,” and “Asia’s businessman of the year respectively? Apparently, plenty. Two award-winning Journalists, Nick Kostov and Sean McLain, from Wall Street Journal, chronicle the entire saga of industry leader, Carlos Ghosn, in their book Boundless: The Rise, Fall, And Escape of Carlos Ghosn. The 320-page book, published by Harper Collins, describes in abundant detail, the life of Carlos Ghosn, who turned around the fortunes of Renault and Nissan by forging what seemed to many “an unlikely alliance,” back then, and was later felled by a deadly concoction of power, ego, and ambition, which eventually got the better of him, leaving him entangled badly in a web of serious financial allegations. Carlos Ghosn, the bearer of three passports, and a multilinguist, who spoke fluent French, English, Portugese, and Arabic, was an ambitious man interested in three things: “progress,” “advancing his own position in life,” and in seeking “prosperity.” As a business leader, Ghosn was a quick learner who “not only studied the habits of factory workers but also mingled with