02562cam a2200361 a 4500 15247856 OSt 20230705140351.0 080404s2008 nyua b 001 0 eng 2008015704 9781591842194 (OCoLC)220859663 (OCoLC)213308876 (OCoLC)ocn220859663 DLC LC IG# BAKER YDXCP BTCTA UPZ IK2 CDX BWX VP@ DLC HG3761.C37 658.4/012 22 Carroll, Paul B. 2002 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. Includes bibliographical references (p. [292]-301) and index. 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 -- 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. Business failures. 2003 Management. 1150 Mui, Chunka, 2004 Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0815/2008015704.html Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0903/2008015704-b.html Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0903/2008015704-d.html 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 9890 17390 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-KL WIUC-KL GEN 2023-03-21 0 HG3761.C37 K/3186/0284/23 2023-07-05 00:00:00 2023-07-05 BK