| Description |
xiii, 319 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Why Did I Call This Book Mean Business? -- 1. Paper Thin: A Microcosm of Bad Business -- 2. Shock Therapy -- 3. Rule 1: Get the Right Management Team -- 4. Rule 2: Pinch Pennies -- 5. Rule 3: Know What Business You're In -- 6. Rule 4: Get a Real Strategy -- 7. "A Nothing Kid from Hoboken" -- 8. Rambo in Pinstripes (aka "Chainsaw Al") -- 9. Look Under "M" for Marketing -- 10. Fire All the Consultants -- 11. Real Jobs, Real Cuts -- 12. The Best Bargain Is an Expensive CEO -- 13. Whose Company Is It, Anyhow? -- 14. Boards of Directors, God Forgive Them -- 15. Feed a Company, Starve a Culture -- 16. Impressing the Analysts -- 17. Fighting Words |
| Summary |
Mean Business is Al Dunlap's specific battle-tested program for business success. It's all based on his incredible track record of injecting new life into tired companies, best exemplified by the dramatic turnaround he quarterbacked at Scott Paper. When Dunlap became chairman and CEO in April 1994, Scott was in woeful shape: a $277 million loss in 1993, on credit watch for excessive debt, a stock that had been comatose for seven years. In a mere nineteen months, Scott had record earnings, the stock had increased in value by $6.5 billion (over 200 percent), and Dunlap merged Scott with Kimberly Clark in a stock swap that valued Scott at $9 billion and created the second largest consumer-products company in the United States. Mean Business provides the inside story behind the strategic thinking that guided Dunlap's quest to once again make Scott a world-class competitor |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Subject |
Corporate turnarounds -- United States -- Case studies.
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Corporate turnarounds.
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| Author |
Andelman, Bob.
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| ISBN |
0684844060 |
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