Losing Faith takes readers inside Intel for a first-hand look at the inner workings of this famed leviathan, the world's leading semiconductor manufacturer. What we find inside is fascinating, but--like the innards of a whale--not always pretty, for among other things, this book reveals blubber: layers of corporate blubber. The books explores how Intel, once known for its entrepreneurial egalitarianism, has become a sluggish, ineffectual bureaucracy dominated by cronyism. The authors' incisive analysis of the company's cultural changes under each of its CEOs gives particular weight to the legacy of Andy Grove, who led Intel through a period of phenomenal success in the 1990s, but nourished a culture of intimidation that had pernicious effects.Losing Faith explores the cultural deterioration of a corporate culture that has seemingly paralleled what has just happened in the US economy from 2007-2008. Entitlement, power, greed,a disregard for values (corporate value in Intel's case) and no leadership to police and enforce ethical behaviors, has led to the breakdown of the US economy.