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Why Companies Fail: The 10 Big Reasons Businesses Crumble, and How to Keep Yours Strong and Solid

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Business survival guide, exposing corporate demise secrets.

It sounds like you're invested in ensuring that your business thrives. "Why Companies Fail" is that insightful mentor guiding you to recognize pitfalls that even giants like Kmart couldn't avoid. The practical advice distilled from those lessons can help you steer clear of similar fates, potentially saving your business from becoming a cautionary tale. It's like having a business guardian angel on your shelf.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Why Companies Fail: The 10 Big Reasons Businesses Crumble, and How to Keep Yours Strong and Solid

Regular price ₱539.55
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ISBN: 9780761563747
Estimated First-hand Retail Price: ₱1,646.10
Authors: Mark Ingebretsen
Publisher: Crown
Date of Publication: 2003-05-27
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Personal Development, Economics, Business
Goodreads rating: 3.56
(rated by 9 readers)

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At the height of the global bull market a few years ago, business giant Kmart stumbled, going from one of the most admired companies to one of the largest bankruptcies in history. The same fate befell several seemingly impenetrable corporations, such as Enron, WorldCom, Polaroid, and others. Were these fantastic failures caused by a fickle stock market and a turbulent economy? Did they fall victim to the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s? Not according to business journalist Mark Ingebretsen in Why Companies Fail. As you'll discover in this groundbreaking book, all of these companies exhibited one or more of the ten characteristics of a doomed company—characteristics that have been shared by failed companies for decades. Kmart, Enron, WorldCom, and other corporations might have been saved if their executives had recognized sooner that their companies were exhibiting one or more of these characteristics. Ingebretsen, with the help of some of the world's most noted business management experts from the Turnaround Management Association, describes in startling detail each of the ten big reasons companies fail: Letting stock price dictate strategy, Ignoring customers, Fighting wars of attrition, Innovating too much or too little, and more. Inside these pages, you'll discover practical methods for identifying these fatal characteristics in your organization and preventing them from leading to
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Business survival guide, exposing corporate demise secrets.

It sounds like you're invested in ensuring that your business thrives. "Why Companies Fail" is that insightful mentor guiding you to recognize pitfalls that even giants like Kmart couldn't avoid. The practical advice distilled from those lessons can help you steer clear of similar fates, potentially saving your business from becoming a cautionary tale. It's like having a business guardian angel on your shelf.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.