Overview
A definitive study of executive failures-why they happen and how to prevent them. There's a scenario that keeps repeating itself in today's business climate. A company is voted one of the most admired in the world. Then three or four years later, it's in dire financial trouble. A CEO is celebrated on the covers of BusinessWeek, Forbes, and Fortune. Soon after, the company is in the midst of a disastrous merger or some other fiasco. What goes wrong in these cases? Usually it seems that the top management made some incredibly stupid mistake. But the people responsible are almost always remarkably intelligent and usually have terrific track records. Even more puzzling than the fact that brilliant managers can make bad mistakes is the way they so often magnify the damage. Once a company has made a bad misstep, it often seems as though it can't do anything right. How does this happen? Instead of rectifying their mistakes, why do business leaders regularly make them worse? To answer these questions, Sydney Finkelstein has carried out the largest research program ever devoted to business breakdowns. In Why Smart Executives Fail, he uncovers-with startling clarity and unassailable documentation-the causes regularly responsible for major business breakdowns. Why Smart Executives Fail relates the stories of great business disasters and demonstrates that there are specific, identifiable ways in which many businesses regularly make themselves vulnerable to failure. The result is a truly indispensable, practical, must-have audiobook that explains the mechanics of executive breakdowns, how to avoid them, and what to do about them if they happen.
Full Product Details
Author: Sydney Finkelstein ,
Don Hagen
Publisher: Gildan Media Corporation
Imprint: Gildan Media Corporation
ISBN: 9798200609284
Publication Date: 01 March 2016
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Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
"""Casting off standard management fare, Finkelstein has raised eyebrows with his unconventional research...lessons are more profound say students."" -- ""BusinessWeek"" ""Managers might be better advised to contemplate how companies fail...Finkelstein identifies 'seven habits of spectacularly unsuccessful people.'"" -- ""Times (London)"" ""Watch the parade of corporate disasters that passes through...'Truly colossal blunders don't come in isolation, they come in clusters.'"" -- ""Economist"""
Author Information
SYDNEY FINKELSTEIN is the Steven Roth Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and the director of Tuck's Center for Leadership. He is a consultant and speaker to senior executives around the globe, as well as an executive coach, focusing on talent development, corporate governance, and strategies for growth. He has published eight previous books, including the Wall Street Journal bestseller Why Smart Executives Fail. He is listed in Thinkers50, the world's most prestigious ranking of leadership gurus. Don Hagen is a nine-time winner of the Peer Award for narration/voice-over and twice winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award.
