Research Catalog

Title

Why smart executives fail and what you can learn from their mistakes / Sydney Finkelstein.

Author

Finkelstein, Sydney.

Publication

New York : Portfolio, 2003.

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Description

x, 321 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• "In Why Smart Executives Fail, Sydney Finkelstein unveils the extraordinary results of the largest research project ever devoted to leadership failure. Over the past six years, Professor Finkelstein and his team conducted hundreds of interviews with insiders at top companies that have risen and fallen - and, for some, risen again - to expose the root of these failures and to gain insight into the people behind them.
• One astonishing finding: businesses that seemed to have nothing in common turned out to have failed for exactly the same reasons. Even the excuses that failed managers offered turned out to be the same in case after case."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Business failures
• Success in business
• Failure (Psychology)
• Executive ability
• Executives > Psychology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-310) and index.

Contents

1. Why Smart Executives Fail -- Pt. I. Great Corporate Mistakes -- 2. New Business Breakdowns -- 3. Innovation and Change -- 4. Mergers and Acquisitions -- 5. Strategy Gone Bad: Doing the Wrong Thing -- Pt. II. The Causes of Failure -- 6. Brilliantly Fulfilling the Wrong Vision -- 7. Delusions of a Dream Company -- 8. Tracking Down the Lost Signals -- 9. Seven Habits of Spectacularly Unsuccessful People -- Pt. III. Learning From Mistakes -- 10. Predicting the Future -- 11. How Smart Executives Learn.

ISBN

• 1591840104 (alk. paper)
• 9781591840107 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2003042994

OCLC

• ocm51838843
• SCSB-9476127

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries