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The Ten Commandments for Business Failure

By Keough, Donald R.

The Ten Commandments for Business Failure Business, Finance & Career

The Ten Commandments for Business Failure

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Don Keough—a former top executive at Coca-Cola and now chairman of the elite investment banking firm Allen & Company—has witnessed plenty of failures in his sixty-year career (including New Coke). He has also been friends with some of the most successful people in business history, including Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Jack Welch, Rupert Murdoch, and Peter Drucker. Now this elder statesman reveals how great enterprises get into trouble. Even the smartest executives can fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility. When that happens, more bad decisions are sure to follow. This light-hearted “how-not-to” book includes anecdotes from Keough's long career as well as other infamous failures. His commandments for failure include: Quit Taking Risks; Be Inflexible; Assume Infallibility; Put All Your Faith in Experts; Send Mixed Messages; and Be Afraid of the Future. As he writes, “After a lifetime in business I've never been able to develop a step-by-step formula that will guarantee success. What I could do, however, was talk about how to lose. I guarantee that anyone who follows my formula will be a highly successful loser.”
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
208
Release Date:
2011-06-28
Publication Date:
2011-06-28
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1591844134
ISBN13:
9781591844136
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
176 g
Height:
131 cm
Width:
196 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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