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Why Things Go Wrong: Deming Philosophy in a Dozen Ten-Minute Sessions
by Gary Fellers
An analysis of W. Edwards Deming's "14 Points for Managers" and "7 Deadly Diseases of Management", this text translates Deming's principles into an easy-to-read format in 12 ten-minute chapters. It aims at teaching managers to examine problems in their organization and take action to solve them.
Why Smart Executives Fail: And What You Can Learn from Their Mistakes
by Sydney Finkelstein
It’s an all too common scenario: A great company breaks from the pack; the analysts are in love, the smiling CEO appears on the cover of BusinessWeek and Fortune , the stock soars. Two years later, the company is in flames, the CEO is under attack, and the stock has tanked. Why does this sort of thing keep happening at respectable companies like Motorola, Quaker, and Sony, all of which have very smart,... (more)