Carroll, Paul B. <br/><br/>
Billion dollar lessons:  what you can learn from the most inexcusable business failures of the last 25 years. / 
Paul B.  Carroll and Chunka Mui. 
 - New York:  Portfolio,  2008. 
 - x, 310 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [292]-301) and index. 
<br/><br/>Contents: Failure patterns: Illusions of synergy: succumbing to the eighth deadly syn(ergy) -- Faulty financial engineering: taking a shortcut through the numbers -- Deflated rollups: buying a string of rock bands to form an ochestra -- Staying the (misguided) course: threat? what threat? -- Misjudged adjancies: the grass isn't always greener -- Fumbling technology: riding the wrong technology -- Consolidation blues: doubling down on a bad hand coda -- Avoiding the same mistakes: Why bad strategies happen to good people: awareness is not enough -- Why bad strategies happen to good companies: awareness is still not enough -- The devil's advocate: unleashing the power of conflict and deliberation -- The safety net: an independent devil's advocate review --  
<br/><br/> Analyzes the costly mistakes of companies throughout the past quarter century to counsel business professionals on what not to do, in a guide that profiles key strategy failures and challenges popular beliefs about leadership, luck, and effective execution. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781591842194 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008015704 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Business failures.<br/>Management.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HG3761.C37  
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>658.4/012