Mean Business! The return of Chainsaw Al Dunlap! INTERVIEW - Mr. Media Interviews by Bob Andelman

Today's Guest: "Chainsaw" Albert J. Dunlap, former CEO of Scott Paper and author of Mean Business: How I Save Bad Companies and Make Good Companies Great.

Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with "Chainsaw" Albert J. Dunlap, former CEO of Scott Paper and author of Mean Business: How I Save Bad Companies and Make Good Companies Great, by clicking on the video player above!

Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience that is packed to the walls with the more than 70 percent of workers whose jobs were saved when Chainsaw came to their towns across three continents… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!

Some time back in 1995, my agent got a call from John Mahaney, a business book editor at Random House.

“You think Andelman would be interested in writing a book with Al Dunlap?”

“Sure,” Joel Fishman said.

(To himself, he no doubt muttered, “He’ll work with anybody at this point!”)
ALBERT J. DUNLAP podcast excerpt: "The corporations that I went into as CEO were always in dire trouble. To succeed in that situation, you must assemble around you the right team of people. People who are smart. People who will tell you when you're wrong: 'That's a bad idea.' People who agree with you all the time are dangerous to the future of the business."
You can LISTEN to this interview with former Scott Paper CEO AL DUNLAP, author of MEAN BUSINESS: HOW I SAVE BAD COMPANIES AND MAKE GOOD COMPANIES GREAT, by clicking the audio player above!

I had written three small books at that point, including Why Men Watch Football, which Sports Illustrated named that week’s “Sign of the Apocalypse.” Not exactly the makings of a long career in letters.

But when I went to meet Dunlap a few days later at Scott Paper headquarters in Boca Raton, Florida, a funny thing happened: the man the business world knew as “Chainsaw” – because of the way he blew through bloated companies on their last