Why smart executives fail
and what you can learn from their mistakes
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Word Count
79,750 words, Guess
Page Count
319 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivewhysmartexecutiv00fink
- Internet Archivewhysmartexecuti000fink
- ISBN-101591840104
- ISBN-101591840457
- ISBN-139781591840107
and 7 more
- ISBN-139781591840459
- Library of Congress Control Number2003042994
- OCLC Control Number55699324
- OCLC Control Number51838843
- Better World Books9781591840459
- Better World Books9781591840107
- Open LibraryOL24766113M
Classifications
- DDC658.4/09
- LCCHD38.2 .F56 2004
- LCCHD38.2 .F56 2003
and 1 more
- LCCHD38.2.F56 2003
Description
It's an all too common scenario: A great company breaks from the pack; the analysts are in love, the smiling CEO appears on the cover of BusinessWeek and Fortune, the stock soars. Two years later, the company is in flames, the CEO is under attack, and the stock has tanked. Why does this sort of thing keep happening at respectable companies like Motorola, Quaker, and Sony, all of which have very smart, hard-working senior executives? And how can you tell if it's about to happen at your own company? Why Smart Executives Fail answers these and many more crucial questions. Sydney Finkelstein, a distinguished professor at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, carried out a six-year study of leadership failure, the largest of its kind. After hundreds of interviews with insiders at top companies that got into major trouble—such as GM, Mattel, and RiteAid—Finkelstein figured out the common causes behind failures in wildly different types of companies. He...
First Sentence
You've seen them on the covers of Forbes, Fortune, and BusinessWeek.
Excerpt
You've seen them on the covers of Forbes, Fortune, and BusinessWeek.
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