TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carroll,Paul B.
AU  - Mui,Chunka
TI  - Billion dollar lessons: what you can learn from the most inexcusable business failures of the last 25 years. 
SN  - 9781591842194
AV  - HG3761.C37  
U1  - 658.4/012 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Portfolio
KW  - Business failures
KW  - Management
N1  - 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 --
N2  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0815/2008015704.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0903/2008015704-b.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0903/2008015704-d.html
ER  -