Ron Burgundy Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 By Nathan Layne and Ritsuko Ando TOKYO (Reuters) - Tom Scott, a former U.S. executive at Toshiba Corp , remembers his former boss Atsutoshi Nishida as an aggressive leader who could motivate staff but also rattle them with tough sales targets and an occasional dressing down.      "He gave me goals that scared the hell out of me," Scott told Reuters after Nishida resigned as an adviser to Toshiba, along with two other former chief executives in the wake of a $1.2 billion accounting scandal.      "Tough as nails, maybe a little like Patton in World War 2, but an honorable guy," he said, looking back on his days working for Nishida's PC sales team in the 1990s. Nishida, Toshiba's president from 2005 to 2009, was at the helm when it began a pattern of "continual inappropriate accounting treatments", an outside panel of investigators hired by Toshiba concluded in a report released last month. View the full article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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