Product Description: Why do smart and experienced leaders make flawed, even catastrophic, decisions? Why do people keep believing they have made the right choice, even with the disastrous result staring them in the face? And how can you be sure you're making the right decision--without the benefit of hindsight?Sydney Finkelstein, Jo Whitehead, and Andrew Campbell show how the usually beneficial processes of the human mind can become traps when we face big decisions...read more

Identifies companies that made critical business mistakes that resulted in their downfalls soon after receiving recognition as successful empires, inviting corporate leaders to learn from the examples of others in order to avoid common vulnerabilities. Reprint.

Identifies companies that made critical business mistakes that resulted in their downfalls soon after receiving recognition as successful empires, inviting corporate leaders to learn from the examples of others in order to avoid common vulnerabilities. 60,000 first printing.