You've seen them on the covers of Forbes, Fortune, and BusinessWeek.
An edition of Why smart executives fail
(2003)
Why smart executives fail
and what you can learn from their mistakes
by Sydney Finkelstein
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"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."--Jacket.
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Why Smart Executives Fail
2009, Penguin USA, Inc.
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in English
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Why Smart Executives Fail: And What You Can Learn from Their Mistakes
May 25, 2004, Portfolio Trade
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in English
1591840457 9781591840459
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Why smart executives fail: and what you can learn from their mistakes
2004, Portfolio
in English
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Why Smart Executives Fail: And What You Can Learn from Their Mistakes
May 29, 2003, Portfolio Hardcover
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in English
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Reprint. Originally published: c2003.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-310) and index.
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It's 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 BusinessWeek and 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 it's about to happen at your own company? Why Smart Executives Fail answers these and many more crucial questions. Sydney Finkelstein, a distinguished professor at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, carried out a six-year study of leadership failure, the largest of its kind. After hundreds of interviews with insiders at top companies that got into major trouble—such as GM, Mattel, and RiteAid—Finkelstein figured out the common causes behind failures in wildly different types of companies. He...
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