Billion-Dollar Lessons
What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years
Published on 25. August 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-1-59184-289-7 (ISBN)
Description
”This book is your chance to learn from others' mistakes.”-- Entrepreneur
In the 1960s, IBM CEO Tom Watson called an executive into his office after his venture lost $10 million. The man assumed he was being fired. Watson told him, "Fired? Hell, I spent $10 million educating you. I just want to be sure you learned the right lessons.”
There are thousands of books about successful companies but virtually none about the lessons to be learned from those that crash and burn. Now Paul Carroll and Chunka Mui draw on research into more than 750 flameouts to reveal the seven biggest reasons for business failure.
In the 1960s, IBM CEO Tom Watson called an executive into his office after his venture lost $10 million. The man assumed he was being fired. Watson told him, "Fired? Hell, I spent $10 million educating you. I just want to be sure you learned the right lessons.”
There are thousands of books about successful companies but virtually none about the lessons to be learned from those that crash and burn. Now Paul Carroll and Chunka Mui draw on research into more than 750 flameouts to reveal the seven biggest reasons for business failure.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Penguin Putnam Inc
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
301 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59184-289-7 (9781591842897)
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Paul B. Carroll | Chunka Mui
Billion Dollar Lessons
What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years
E-Book
09/2008
Portfolio
€14.99
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Paul B. Carroll and Chunka Mui