BUSINESS failures
BUSINESS failures
Gaining and sustaining competitive advantage requires understanding how to achieve success, but it also requires understanding how to avoid mistakes. Thus, in the same way that medical professionals study disease as a...
In The Self-Destructive Habits of Good Companies, Dr. Jagdish N. Sheth looks at success in business, through the lens of habit, to provide important insights into how “success courts its own demise.”...
In The Strategy Paradox, Michael Raynor posits that many of the strategies which lead to business success are the same strategies which can lead to business disaster. Most successful businesses result...
In How They Blew It, Jamie Oliver and Tony Goodwin investigate 16 of the world’s greatest business failures in order to help readers avoid similar situations. To be successful entrepreneurs or CEOs,...
Will Your Next Mistake Be Fatal? concerns what author Robert E. Mittelstaedt, Jr. refers to as M3 - Managing Multiple Mistakes - and illustrates, using the experience of others, how to create an organization observant...
For three decades, Judith Hurwitz has been involved with the technology sector. In Smart or Lucky?, Hurwitz casts her expert eye on the technology sector, and the lessons learned from each fallen company that today’s...
Because there can only be one market leader at any one point in time, the vast majority of companies exist as part of a pack of also-rans. However, today’s record-breaking numbers of mergers and acquisitions, and the...
The rise and fall of the DeLorean, RJ Reynolds’s smokeless cigarette, Motorola’s failure in digital cellular telephony, not to mention the more recent headline grabbers—Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Rite Aid, ImClone, et al.—...
