The Ten Commandments for Business Failure

Author: Donald R. Keough
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101535253
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 127

Book Description
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.”

The Ten Commandments for Business Failure

Author: Donald R. Keough
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781591842347
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 216

Book Description
Presents a light-hearted guide to what not to do in business, discussing the eleven major mistakes that lead to failure, including quit taking risks, don't take time to think, and send mixed messages.

Thou Shall Prosper

Author: Daniel E. Lapin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780471218685
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 376

Book Description
Offers advice on personal finance and creating wealth based on the principles of Jewish tradition.

The Ten Commandments

Author: David Hazony
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416562516
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
Part memoir, part scholarship, part manifesto for a vital approach to life, David Hazony’s book tackles some of the most painful human questions that stand at the heart of who we are as modern, thinking people and offers answers that are sure to start a new discussion about the meaning of one of our most enduring, yet least understood, traditions. Across the Western World, the Ten Commandments have become a source of both inspiration and controversy, whether in Supreme Court rulings, in film and literature, or as a religious icon gracing houses of worship of every Christian and Jewish denomination. But what do the commandments really stand for? According to polls, less than half of all Americans can even name more than four of them. Fewer still can name all ten or have a clear idea of the ideals they were meant to promote. For most of us, agnostics and faithful alike, they have been relegated to the level of a symbol, and the teachings they contain are all but forgotten. In Western life today, the Ten Commandments are everywhere— except where we need them most. In The Ten Commandments, David Hazony offers a powerful new look at our most venerable moral text. Combining a fresh reading of the Old Testament’s most riveting stories and ancient rabbinic legends with a fearless exploration of what ails society today, Hazony shows that the Ten Commandments are not just a set of obscure laws but encapsulate a deeply valuable approach to life—one that is as relevant now as it was when they first appeared more than two millennia ago.

The Ten Commandments of Working in a Hostile Environment

Author: T. D. Jakes
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780425200162
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
The bestselling author shows how to bring the Christian faith into the workplace. With simple strategies and inspiring insights, Bishop Jakes helps readers understand how to put work in its proper place, recognize their blessings, and fight to take control of their work life. (Christian Religion)

Morality, Competition, and the Firm

Author: Joseph Heath
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199990492
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 425

Book Description
In this collection of provocative essays, Joseph Heath provides a compelling new framework for thinking about the moral obligations that private actors in a market economy have toward each other and to society. In a sharp break with traditional approaches to business ethics, Heath argues that the basic principles of corporate social responsibility are already implicit in the institutional norms that structure both marketplace competition and the modern business corporation. In four new and nine previously published essays, Heath articulates the foundations of a "market failures" approach to business ethics. Rather than bringing moral concerns to bear upon economic activity as a set of foreign or externally imposed constraints, this approach seeks to articulate a robust conception of business ethics derived solely from the basic normative justification for capitalism. The result is a unified theory of business ethics, corporate law, economic regulation, and the welfare state, which offers a reconstruction of the central normative preoccupations in each area that is consistent across all four domains. Beyond the core theory, Heath offers new insights on a wide range of topics in economics and philosophy, from agency theory and risk management to social cooperation and the transaction cost theory of the firm.

Billion Dollar Lessons

Author: Paul B. Carroll
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440630100
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
”This book is your chance to learn from others’ mistakes.”-- Entrepreneur In the 1960s, IBM CEO Tom Watson called an executive into his office after his venture lost $10 million. The man assumed he was being fired. Watson told him, “Fired? Hell, I spent $10 million educating you. I just want to be sure you learned the right lessons.” There are thousands of books about successful companies but virtually none about the lessons to be learned from those that crash and burn. Now Paul Carroll and Chunka Mui draw on research into more than 750 flameouts to reveal the seven biggest reasons for business failure.

Entrepreneuring

Author: Steven C. Brandt
Publisher: Archipelago Pub
ISBN: 9781888925029
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
You will discover how to set objectives for yourself and the business; select the right partners, investors, key employees; define your product or service and market; prepare a useful business plan; monitor and conserve cash and credit; expand methodically; avoid stress and look ahead.

Art Thinking

Author: Amy Whitaker
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062358286
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 170

Book Description
An indispensable and inspiring guide to creativity in the workplace and beyond, drawing on art, psychology, science, sports, law, business, and technology to help you land big ideas in the practical world. Anyone from CEO to freelancer knows how hard it is to think big, let alone follow up, while under pressure to get things done. Art Thinking offers practical principles, inspiration, and a healthy dose of pragmatism to help you navigate the difficulties of balancing creative thinking with driving toward results. With an MBA and an MFA, Amy Whitaker, an entrepreneur-in-residence at the New Museum Incubator, draws on stories of athletes, managers, writers, scientists, entrepreneurs, and even artists to engage you in the process of “art thinking.” If you are making a work of art in any field, you aren’t going from point A to point B. You are inventing point B. Art Thinking combines the mind-sets of art and the tools of business to protect space for open-ended exploration and manage risks on your way to success. Art Thinking takes you from “Wouldn’t it be cool if . . . ?” to realizing your highest aims, helping you build creative skills you can apply across all facets of business and life. Warm, honest, and unexpected, Art Thinking will help you reimagine your work and life—and even change the world—while enjoying the journey from point A. Art Thinking features 60 line drawings throughout.

Management of the Absurd

Author: Richard Farson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684830442
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 182

Book Description
A "Business Week" bestseller, this original, contrarian philosophy challenges today's leaders to look past the quick fix and deal thoughtfully with the real complexities of managing people.