Billion dollar lessons : what you can learn from the most inexcusable business failures of the last twenty-five years / Paul B. Carroll and Chunka Mui.
2008
658.4012 C319b 2008
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Title
Billion dollar lessons : what you can learn from the most inexcusable business failures of the last twenty-five years / Paul B. Carroll and Chunka Mui.
Author
ISBN
9781591842194
1591842190
1591842190
Imprint
New York : Portfolio, 2008.
Language
English
Description
x, 310 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
658.4012 C319b 2008
System Control No.
(OCoLC)220859663
(OCoLC)220859663
(OCoLC)220859663
Summary
Analyzes the costly mistakes of companies throughout the past quarter century to counsel business professionals on what not to do, in a guide that profiles key strategy failures and challenges popular beliefs about leadership, luck, and effective execution.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [292]-301) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction: Can fatal strategic flaws only be recognized in hindsight?
Pt. 1. Failure patterns.
1. Illusions of synergy : succumbing to the eighth deadly syn(ergy)
2. Faulty financial engineering : taking a shortcut through the numbers
3. Deflated rollups : buying a string of rock bands to form an orchestra
4. Staying the (misguided) course : threat? what threat?
5. Misjudged adjacencies : the grass isn't always greener
6. Fumbling technology : riding the wrong technology
7. Consolidation blues : doubling down on a bad hand
Coda
Pt. 2. Avoiding the same mistakes.
8. Why bad strategies happen to good people : awareness in not enough
9. Why bad strategies happen to good companies : awareness is still not enough
10. The devil's advocate : unleashing the power of conflict and deliberation
11. The safety net : an independent devil's advocate review
Epilogue: Two revolutions.
Pt. 1. Failure patterns.
1. Illusions of synergy : succumbing to the eighth deadly syn(ergy)
2. Faulty financial engineering : taking a shortcut through the numbers
3. Deflated rollups : buying a string of rock bands to form an orchestra
4. Staying the (misguided) course : threat? what threat?
5. Misjudged adjacencies : the grass isn't always greener
6. Fumbling technology : riding the wrong technology
7. Consolidation blues : doubling down on a bad hand
Coda
Pt. 2. Avoiding the same mistakes.
8. Why bad strategies happen to good people : awareness in not enough
9. Why bad strategies happen to good companies : awareness is still not enough
10. The devil's advocate : unleashing the power of conflict and deliberation
11. The safety net : an independent devil's advocate review
Epilogue: Two revolutions.
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