by Sydney Finkelstein · Portfolio Hardcover · tapa dura · ISBN 9781591840107
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«Why Smart Executives Fail» is the business management essay by Sydney Finkelstein, published by Portfolio Hardcover in hardcover (318 pages, in English).
The essay presents a major research project on executive failure: hundreds of interviews with people from large companies that collapsed. With cases such as Mattel or Tyco, the book shows that very different companies fail for the same reasons, that executives' excuses repeat themselves, and that common management errors exist.
First American edition, published on June 2, 2003, by Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin Group.
A work for executives, entrepreneurs, and business management students interested in why companies fail.
Sidney Finkelstein (1909–1974) was an American cultural critic with wide-ranging interests in literature, music and fine arts, which he analyzed from a Marxist perspective. His area of particular expertise was popular music: its history, and the relationship between music and society. His best-known books include Jazz: A People's Music (1948), How Music Expresses Ideas (1952), and Composer and Nation (1960). Along with Charles Seeger, Finkelstein is considered "one of two American Marxist musical theoreticians of consequence." He has also been compared to British jazz writer "Francis Newton," pseudonym for British Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawn.
