by Sydney Finkelstein · Penguin Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781591840459
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«Why Smart Executives Fail» is the business essay by Sydney Finkelstein, published by Penguin Publishing Group in hardcover (336 pages, in English).
The book analyzes why brilliant executives end up making disastrous decisions in large companies. Finkelstein studies cases such as GM, Mattel and RiteAid, identifies the common patterns behind those failures and sets out the «seven habits of spectacularly unsuccessful people», with keys to avoiding errors before they sink a company.
Aimed at executives, managers and management professionals interested in leadership and preventing strategic errors.
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.
