MISMANAGEMENT
MISMANAGEMENT
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,...
Roddy Boyd’s Fatal Risk, details the birth, growth, and ultimate collapse in 2008 of AIG—the largest insurance company in the world. What began after World War I as C.V. Starr’s enterprise in China...
In Deliver!, management adviser Jim Champy takes a close look at five very different case studies of enterprises that have found ways to cut costs, improve efficiencies, or integrate new, sometimes...
On the night of April 20, 2010, BP’s Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit (MODU) the Deepwater Horizon exploded, killing 11 people and injuring dozens more. For the next 87 days, millions of barrels of oil from the Macondo...
In the best-selling business book, Good to Great, readers discovered why some companies do well. In another best-seller, Execution, readers learned what some companies do well. And in Kiss...
In America’s capital-starved economy, high-tech industries will do no better than low-tech ones. In fact, low-tech businesses that supply staples for everyday living, whether the economy is prosperous or austere, will...
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.—...
