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Why Smart Executives Fail(ISBN=9781591840459)
书评 From Publishers Weekly Is there a more timely topic for a business book than brilliantexecutives running their companies into the ground? Dartmouthbusiness professor Finkelstein has been on the case for six years,researching how otherwise intelligent people can manage to botchthings up. Here, he dredges up old corporate screwups (like R. J.Reynolds's smokeless cigarettes) and new ones, too (WorldCom andTyco, among others). There's a certain amount of schadenfreudeinvolved, as the author crisply and incisively picks apart disasterafter disaster, but the lessons drawn from this lengthy study are,for the most part, vastly unsurprising. While each company profiledtends to fail in its own way, there are common traits among topexecs, such as a propensity to eliminate "anyone who isn't 100percent behind them" and to "underestimate major obstacles." WhileFinkelstein suggests avoiding such destructive behaviors, the truthis, sometimes it's human nature to be blind to one's ownweaknesses. And that's a mystery
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