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Corporate Vices
Charles Cohen
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Description for Corporate Vices
Paperback. This book will help you rediscover the simple, unchanging, first principles that lie behind todaya s complex and logically challenged corporate world. Only the simple things are sharp enough to help you cut to the heart of some of the most stubborn problems in organization, leadership, technology and management. This is a book about how to choose. Num Pages: 148 pages. BIC Classification: KJC; KJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate; (XV) Technical / Manuals. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 9. Weight in Grams: 252.
Corporate Vices uncovers the real performance gap in modern corporations between good business practice that builds companies, and bad corporate habits that eventually bring them down. It builds a detailed picture of how wayward corporations often try too hard, think too little, and forget too much. And it offers a sharp contrast with companies, large and small, that are good businesses, and how they manage to stay that way.
Looking behind the headlines of spectacular corporate disasters, such as Enron and Marconi, as well as corporations that are under pressure and going nowhere, Corporate Vices identifies the ... Read more
Corporate Vices uncovers the real performance gap in modern corporations between good business practice that builds companies, and bad corporate habits that eventually bring them down. It builds a detailed picture of how wayward corporations often try too hard, think too little, and forget too much. And it offers a sharp contrast with companies, large and small, that are good businesses, and how they manage to stay that way.
Looking behind the headlines of spectacular corporate disasters, such as Enron and Marconi, as well as corporations that are under pressure and going nowhere, Corporate Vices identifies the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
148
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841124353
SKU
V9781841124353
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
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99-50
About Charles Cohen
After graduating from Oxford University in 1992, Charles Cohen worked first as a political speechwriter in the House of Commons and then in Public Relations before setting up his first company to provide website content management solutions for large corporations. In 1998 he developed an idea to create and manage a new digital currency, initially for use ... Read more
Reviews for Corporate Vices
"…he does address repeatedly, and in all aspects, the core question many have asked for 15 years…" (The Guardian, 2 November 2002) "…overall this is a very enjoyable book to read…if the book gets you thinking about your own excesses it can’t be a bad thing…" (Ps.advisor) "…A hard hitting and uncompromising style. Self-tests that challenge the ... Read more