421 Business Strategy Mistakes and How You Can Avoid Them

By Stephen Roulac

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931578095
• ISBN13: 9781931578097
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Property Press
• Length: 523 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Comprehensive, Eye-Opening, Thought-Provoking

Every executive, manager, and supervisor makes mistakes. It's one of the risks and realities of leadership. The secret, someone once said, is not to make the same mistake twice. A deeper secret is not to make the mistake the first time! If you can avoid the mistakes by learning from others, you'll be ahead of the game. Now, if you only had a mentor who could guide you along your career path...a coach who could just point out some mistakes that you could avoid. Enter: Stephen Roulac, a Certified Management Consultant with decades of advisory experience. He doesn't have all the answers, and a lot of his comments are very tight and to-the-point. Not a lot of extra words-or explanations-in these pages. Yet, in page after page, Roulac delivers warnings about common mistakes in Plans and Goals, Strategy, Values, Mission, Vision, Decisions, Operating Philosophies, Finance and Accounting, Purchasing and Supply Chain, Styles and Priorities, Management Behavior, Individual Style, Competition and Markets, Perspective and Viewpoints, Marketing and Sales, Leadership, and more. This book will give you a lot to think about, in nugget form. You'll find much more breadth than depth here, with enough of a range of topics that you'll be stimulated to talk with others about their experiences and perspectives. The final section of the book offers cogent advice on recognizing and avoiding mistakes. Valuable for new or experienced leaders. Great reference book to have sitting on your shelf.

421 Business Strategy Mistakes

Only Stephen Roulac could find 421 ways to make me wince! I suspect every reader will find he or she has been guilty of 200 or more of these mistakes! They serve as critical reminders - one for each day of the year, and a few extras for days you are feeling you really are infallible!- Kirk O. Hanson, Professor and Executive Director,Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University

Strategic Insights

A trove of strategic insights that reads like the "Tao Te Ching" of business. These nuggets of Stephen's good wisdom offer enduring truths with a poetic simplicity that has profound implications. Read this book to absorb strategic understanding at a deep level of consciousness. - William E. Halal, Professor of Management, George Washington University; Author, "The Infinite Resource" and "Twenty-first Century Economics

Important Information

Throughout history, it has always been the major battles that have taught us our greatest lessons. People have died trying to discover these truths. This book is like having the golden truths of 421 major battles distilled into their naked essence and handed to you on a silver platter. Just imagine how history would have changed if they had the benefit of this information. - Thomas J. Frey, Executive Director, The DaVinci Institute

Review

Summarizes and organzies much of what youlearned in business school, and a lot more that your profs may not have taught you. But if you don't want to spend two years and $150,000 in obtaining an MBA, read Steve Roulac's book, which is an outstanding surrogate. - John W. Bickell II