| Description |
x, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
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 -- Pt. 2. Avoiding the Same Mistakes -- 8. Why Bad Strategies Happen to Good People: Awareness Is 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 |
| Summary |
"In the 1960s, IBM CEO Tom Watson called an executive into his office after his venture lost $10 million. The man assumed he was being fired. Watson told him, "Fired? Hell, I spent $10 million educating you. I just want to be sure you learned the right lessons."" "In Billion-Dollar Lessons, Paul Carroll and Chunka Mui draw on research into more than 750 business failures to reveal the misguided tactics that mire companies over and over. There are thousands of books about successful companies but virtually none about the lessons to be learned from those that crash and burn."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Business failures.
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Management.
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| Author |
Mui, Chunka, 1962-
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| LC no. |
2008015704 |
| ISBN |
9781591842194 |
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