Why Smart Executives Fail And What You Can Learn from Their Mistakes

Name: Why Smart Executives Fail And What You Can Learn from Their Mistakes
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ISBN: 9781591840459

ISBN-10: 1591840457

ISBN-13: 9781591840459

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Authors: Sydney Finkelstein

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Its 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 BusinessWeekand 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 its about to happen at your own company? Why Smart Executives Failanswers these and many more crucial questions. Sydney Finkelstein, a distinguished professor at Dartmouths Tuck School of Business, carried out a six-year study of…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/25/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.55" wide x 8.43" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English