Business exposed the naked truth about what really goes on in the world of business
Cutting edge, pithy and provocative, this is a no-holds barred analysis of business today that will entertain and appal you in equal measure. This entertaining expose of the business world, reveals the scandals, quirks, counter-intuitive behaviour and downright silliness that make up business today...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Harlow, England :
Pearson Education, Limited
[2010]
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
| Colección: | Financial Times series
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009628522306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Praise for Business Exposed
- Contents
- About the Author
- Publisher's Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Monkey Story
- Chapter 1: Management Happens
- Forced to Be Stupid
- Collective Inertia - if You Don'T Join Them, You Can Beat Them!
- Pharma - the Devil Is in the Detailing
- The Abilene Paradox
- Same Same But Different
- Selection Bias"
- Numbers and Strategy - Do They Mix?
- Inebriated Cyclists
- Deciding Stuff - that's the Easy Bit
- How Well Do You Know Your Company? (My Guess Is Not Very Well At All . . .)
- How to Make a Compelling Corporate Strategy in Six Easy Steps
- Wanna Play Strategy? Get a Board Game
- "Framing Contests": What Really Happens in Strategy Meetings
- It Looks Like We Don'T Have a Strategy . . .
- Chapter 2: The Success Trap (and Some Ideas How to Get Out of It)
- Why Good Companies Go Bad
- The Icarus Paradox
- Tunnel Vision - "in the End, There Is Only Flux"
- Operation Market Garden
- Mental Models - let's All Think Within the Same Box
- A Creosote Bush: How "Exploitation" Drives Out "Exploration"
- A Bitter Pill
- Framing Something As a Threat or An Opportunity Dramatically Alters What We Choose
- In a Downturn, Manage Your Revenues, Not Your Costs
- In a Crisis, Innovate
- Is Your Company Brave Enough to Survive?
- Chapter 3: The Urge to Conquer
- How Big Is Your Yam? (Not That It Matters)
- Deal-Eager Executives - Tribal Instincts
- Ceos, Marriage, Mergers, Geriatric Millionaires, and Blushing Brides
- When Acquisitions Take Over
- "Time Compression Diseconomies" - Too Much, Too Fast
- Seeds and Fertilizer - How to Build a Firm
- "I'Ve Won . . . I'Ve Won!"
- Most Acquisitions Fail - Really!
- "Heerlijk, Helder, Heineken"
- Toads and Acquisitions - Where Does Ceo "Hubris" Come From?
- Chapter 4: Gods and Villains
- The Heroes of Our Time.
- Narcissus Versus Humble Bloke - and the Winner Is . . . ?
- Are Overconfident Ceos Born or Made?
- Hang the Hero
- Celebrity Ceos and the Burden of Expectations
- Successful Managers - Incompetent for Sure
- Executives: Superhuman After All . . .
- "Over the Hill and Far Away, Top Managers Are Here to Stay"
- Chief Story-Teller
- Managers and Leaders: Are They Different?
- Women on Top
- Chapter 5: Liaisons and Intrigues
- Facts Over Fiction
- Analysts, Astrologers, and Lemmings - Three of a Kind?
- Conflicts of Interest - Do Analysts Rate Their bank's Clients' Stock More Favorably?
- Banks' Blurry Categorizations - Have Your Cake and Eat It Too
- Analysts Rule the Waves (Whether We Like It or Not)
- Sirens and Investment Bankers - Birds of a Feather
- How to Tame An Analyst
- Advice or Influence? Why Firms Ask Government Officials to Be Directors
- Boards of Directors: Cliques and Elites
- Board-Cloning - a Rewarding Habit
- Boardroom Friends
- Ceos and Their Stock Options . . . (Oh Please . . .)
- Stock Options, Risk, and Manipulations
- Too Hot to Handle: Explaining Excessive Top Management Remuneration
- How to Justify Paying Top Managers Too Much
- Ceos Do Seek Advice - if You Pay Them for It . . .
- Dirty Laundry: Who Is Hiding the Bad Stuff?
- Chapter 6: Myths in Management
- No Stranger to Fiction
- Say You Will - That'Ll Do
- Right Again! Managers and Their Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
- Your Expectations Manage You
- "Reverse Causality" - Sorry, But life's Not That Simple
- Eating Uncle Ed - Don'T Worry, it's Called Downsizing
- Does Downsizing Ever Work?
- Who Can Downsize Without Detriment?
- What Management Bandwagons Bring
- Remember This One: "Total Quality Management"?
- Iso 9000 Makes You Reliable, Myopic, Efficient, and Dull - and Unable to Invent Post-It Notes
- How Bad Practice Prevails.
- Can We Please Stop Saying That the Market Is Efficient?
- Pin-Striped Pigeons
- Management Consultants - Happy Slapping
- Star Knowledge Workers - You Really Should Not Pay Them That Much, You Know
- Patent Sharks
- Information Overload - and How to Deal With It (if You'Re the One Loading)
- When Knowledge Hurts
- Exaggerating to Make My Point
- R&D - it's a Steal
- Chapter 7: Making Far-Reaching Decisions (When You Can'T See a Fricking Thing Ahead of You)
- The Red Queen
- Binoculars in the Mist
- "Today's Fast-Changing Business Environment"? The Same As It Ever Was!
- Is Innovation Over-Rated?
- Customers? Ah, Forget About Them
- Means and Ends
- Profits and Innovation
- It Is Ok to Get Lucky - Even for a Top Manager
- Getting Lucky - Fortune Favors the Prepared Firm
- Sometimes It Is About Knowing When Not to Decide
- Retaining Your Ability to Make Money? Causal ambiguity's the Answer
- Company Cloning - How to Change a Winning Formula
- When to Fire Your M&A Management Consultant
- Not All Trouble Is Really Trouble
- Change for change's Sake
- Now Change It Again!
- "A Serial Changer"
- "Innovation Networks" and the Size of the Pie
- Spinning Clients - the Mckinsey Effect
- Chapter 8: A Rock or a Soft Place?
- The Hidden Cost of Equity
- "Shareholder Value Orientation" - Now, Where Did That Come From?
- Who Should Come First? Shareholders? Are You Sure . . . ?
- Human Nature: Self-Interested Bastard or Community-Builder?
- Downtown Calcutta Firms
- Pay Inequality - Good or Bad for Team Performance?
- What Really Caused the 2008 Banking Crisis?
- The Third Sin
- "Work-Family Initiatives"?! That's Rather Soft and Fluffy, Isn'T It?
- Corporate Social Responsibility - Nice, But Does It Earn You Any Money?
- Taking Care: Companies Make Love and Money (if Their Shareholders Let Them).
- Epilogue: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Literature
- Index.
