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Billion Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Ye ars

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Billion Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Ye ars

â€This book is your chance to learn from othersâ€™ mistakes.â€-- 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, â€œFired? Hell, I spent $10 million educating you. I just want to be sure you learned the right lessons.â€

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.

Country	USA
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	Updated
EISBN	9781440630101
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Portfolio
Manufacturer	Portfolio
NumberOfPages	332
PublicationDate	2008-08-24
Publisher	Portfolio
ReleaseDate	2008-09-11
Studio	Portfolio

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