Comeback: How Seven Straight-Shooting Ceos Turned Around Troubled Companies

by Martin Puris

Profiles seven chief executives who rescued their companies from financial disaster, offering detailed studies of such diverse corporations as Compaq, Continental, Honeywell, U.S. Surgical, Chrysler,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812931270
• ISBN13: 9780812931273
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Crown Business
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

the will to survive

I really liked this book..it's less of a business book than it is an adventure story. The characters are interesting...some downright exciting...and the plots carry you right along through what could have been just another series of "Business Case Studies" (read, dry). But, no, this book moves.

heros for our time

The third world war will be fought in the market place...and CEOs are the Pattons of the new economy. These are fascinating stories of coroporate heros...warts and all. I read it in one night.

the longest yard

The most difficult job in the world is that of turning around a troubed business. The CEOs involved in this fascinating saga of renewal faced the devil and beat him. An admirable bunch and a well written chronicle of their efforts!

insightful...a kind of adventure story...I liked it.

Different charcters...different approaches to saving their companies...reads like an adventuire story...interesting right up to the end...insights I can use.

Insights into the reality of leadership

An intriguing examination of how each of the turnaround leaders, whose stories are presented in the seven highly engrossing main chapters, think and work. At the heart of the book is the author's focus on the nature of leadership. The concluding chapter offers the author's thoughts, which are not a simplified list of characteristics, but a subtle view of the complex reality of what constitutes a leader. In short, this is not a recipe book on how to become a leader, but a series of real-world snapshots of this intangible force in action. Engrossing and informative.