Why Smart Executives Fail: And What You Can Learn from Their Mistakes
And What You Can Learn from Their Mistakes
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- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
25 May 2004
Summary
Itas 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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781591840459 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1591840457 |
| Author: | Sydney Finkelstein |
| Publisher: | Portfolio |
| Imprint: | Portfolio |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 25 May 2004 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 137mm x 211mm |
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Critics Review
A marvel
“If you think you know what’s bringing down the leaders of the corporate world, think again. Written with tact and humor, and offering tremendous insight (often straight from the horse’s mouth), Why Smart Executives Fail can be your road map for avoiding the rocky paths these leaders followed.”–Alan Hassenfeld Chairman “If you think you know what’s bringing down the leaders of the corporate world, think again.” A marvel?a jargon-free business book based on serious research that offers genuine insights with clarity and sometimes even wit… it should be required reading not just for executives but for investors as well. (“The Wall Street Journal”) Richly detailed storytelling and analysis. (“Fortune”) A landmark book, certain to become a classic. (Warren Bennis) If you think you know what’s bringing down the leaders of the corporate world, think again. (Alan Hassenfeld, Chairman and CEO, Hasbro Inc.) A marvela jargon-free business book based on serious research that offers genuine insights with clarity and sometimes even wit… it should be required reading not just for executives but for investors as well. (“The Wall Street Journal”) Richly detailed storytelling and analysis. (“Fortune”) A landmark book, certain to become a classic. (Warren Bennis) If you think you know whats bringing down the leaders of the corporate world, think again. (Alan Hassenfeld, Chairman and CEO, Hasbro Inc.) A marvelaa jargon-free business book based on serious research that offers genuine insights with clarity and sometimes even wit… it should be required reading not just for executives but for investors as well. (“The Wall Street Journal”) Richly detailed storytelling and analysis. (“Fortune”) A landmark book, certain to become a classic. (Warren Bennis) If you think you know whatas bringing down the leaders of the corporate world, think again. (Alan Hassenfeld, Chairman and CEO, Hasbro Inc.)
Sydney Finkelstein
Constance E. Helfat is the J. Brian Quinn Professor in Technology and Strategy at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Professor Helfat focuses her research on firm capabilities and knowledge, involving technological innovation and adaptation and change of firm capabilities over time.
Sydney Finkelstein is the Steven Roth Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Will Mitchell is the J. Rex Fuqua Professor of International Management and Professor of Strategy at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Margaret A. Peteraf is Professor of Strategi
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