Product Description: The collapse of Barings’ Bank was a commercial catastrophe that resonated worldwide, showing what kind of secrets can lie behind an apparently successful organization.  Following Nick Leeson’s arrest and subsequent conviction for fraud, investment banks anxiously reviewed their risk management controls to make sure that it could never happen again...read more

Product Description: Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: 2012-1-1 Pages: 263 Publisher:.... Penguin Wise Relevant Riveting -Jim Collins. author of Good toGreat Denial is the unconscious belief that a certain fact is tooterrible to face and therefore can not be true It turns challengesinto crises...read more

This new edition of Blunders in International Business is significantly updated and revised, full of interesting anecdotes, including dozens of new international business blunders. David Ricks has uncovered many informative and entertaining blunders that will make this book hard to put down. Features blunders from well-known corporations American Express, McDonalds, Toyota, GM, Sharwoods, Jolly Green Giant, Bacardi, Puff, AOL, BMW, and many others. Conserves its well-liked, concise format. Several well-known blunders from previous editions have been replaced in order to update the lessons learned.

Product Description: Why do so many good companies engage in self-destructive behavior? This book identifies seven dangerous habits even well-run companies fall victim to–and helps you diagnose and break these habits before they destroy you. Through case studies from some of yesterday’s most widely praised corporate icons, you’ll learn how companies slip into “addiction” and slide off the rails...read more

Describes influential business philosophies and marketing ideas from the past twenty years and examines why they did not work, including those used by such notable companies as IBM, Microsoft, and Apple, with new sections on Google, Knowing How to Avoid Stupidity, Sievel Systems, and more. Original. (Intermediate)

Product Description: This is the book for anyone who wants to know what really lies behind the scandals and disasters of global business that have marred the first few years of the twenty-first century. This book is not about stock market "bubbles". Nor is it about accounting scandals and craven auditors...read more