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Acknowledgments vii | |
Why Smart Executives Fail n 1 | |
What Can Studying Failure Tell You? | |
Great Corporate Mistakes | |
New Business Breakdowns n 21 | |
Stories of New Ventures That Don't Work . . . and Why | |
Innovation and Change n 52 | |
Choosing Not to Cope | |
Mergers and Acquisitions n 77 | |
The Search for Synergy, the Quest for Integration | |
Strategy Gone Bad: Doing the Wrong Thing n 108 | |
Why Strategists Misread Competitors and Select "Irrational" Strategies | |
The Causes Of Failure | |
Brilliantly Fulfilling the Wrong Vision n 137 | |
How Executive Mind-set Failures Push Businesses to the Brink . . . and Beyond | |
Delusions of a Dream Company n 166 | |
How Executives Avoid Facing Reality | |
Tracking Down the Lost Signals n 192 | |
Why Businesses Don't Act on Vital Information | |
Seven Habits of Spectacularly Unsuccessful People n 213 | |
The Personal Qualities of Leaders Who Preside over Major Business Failures | |
Learning From Mistakes | |
Predicting the Future n 241 | |
The Early Warning Signs | |
How Smart Executives Learn n 267 | |
Living-and Surviving-in a World of Mistakes | |
Notes 293 | |
Index 311 | |
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