Freek Vermeulen

Business Exposed (eBook, ePUB)

The naked truth about what really goes on in the world of business

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Cutting edge, pithy and provocative, this is a no-holds barred analysis of business today that will entertain and appal you in equal measure.

This entertaining expose of the business world, reveals the scandals, quirks, counter-intuitive behaviour and downright silliness that make up business today. Based on rigorous research and verifiable facts, combining revelation, story-telling and analysis, this book will defy anyone to read it and not emerge better-informed about the reality of business today.

From the collective inertia of middle management to the cowardly reluctance of CEOs to stand out from the crowd, from the soap opera of working with consultants to the mystery of why top executives' salaries bear no resemblance to the performance of their firms, Business Exposed will entertain and appal you in equal measure.

The author is widely recognised as a new and emerging business guru, speaking of him in 2009, the Financial Times said: "The London Business School associate professor is a rising star and his pithy observations are both accessible and authoritative."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pearson HigherEducation
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780273761723
• Artikelnr.: 38184405

Autorenporträt

Freek Vermeulen is Associate Professor of Strategic & International Management at London Business School, teaching courses to executives and executive MBA students. He is the recipient of several teaching and various research-related awards, including the first-ever LBS 'Excellence in Teaching' award and the prestigious Academy of Management Journal Best Paper Award. Freek is an active consultant for companies such as KPMG, and a key-note speaker on various topics.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
 
About the Author
Publisher's acknowledgements
Introduction: The monkey story
 
1: Management happens
Forced to be stupid  
Collective inertia - if you dont join them, you can beat them!
Pharma - the devil is in the detailing
The Abilene Paradox
Same same but different
"Selection bias"
Numbers and strategy - do they mix?
Inebriated cyclists
Deciding stuff - thats the easy bit
How well do you know your company? (My guess is not very well at all)
How to make a compelling corporate strategy in six easy steps
Wanna play strategy? Get a board game
"Framing contests": What really happens in strategy meetings
It looks like we dont have a strategy
2: The Success trap (and some ideas how to get out of it)
Why good companies go bad
The Icarus paradox
Tunnel vision - "in the end, there is only flux"
Operation Market Garden
Mental models lets all think within the same box
A creosote bush: how "exploitation" drives out "exploration"
A bitter pill
Framing something as a threat or an opportunity dramatically alters what we
choose
In a downturn, manage your revenues, not your costs
In a crisis, innovate
Is your company brave enough to survive?
3: The urge to conquer
How big is your yam? (not that it matters)
Deal-eager executives - tribal instincts
CEOs, marriage, mergers, geriatric millionaires, and blushing brides 
When acquisitions take over
"Time compression diseconomies" - too much, too fast
Seeds and fertilizer - how to build a firm
"I've won... I've won"
Most acquisitions fail - really!
"Heerlijk, helder, Heineken"
Toads and acquisitions - where does CEO "hubris" come from?
4: Gods and villains
The heroes of our time
Narcissus versus humble bloke - and the winner is?
Are overconfident CEOs born or made?
Hang the hero
Celebrity CEOs and the burden of expectation
Successful managers - incompetent for sure
Executives: superhuman after all
"Over the hill and far away, top managers are here to stay"
Chief story teller
Managers and leaders: are they different?
Women on top
5: Liaisons and intrigues
Fact over fiction
Analysts, astrologers, and lemmings - three of a kind?
Conflicts of interest - do analysts rate their bank's clients' stock more
favorably?
Banks' blurry categorizations - have your cake and eat it too
Analysts rule the waves (whether we like it or not)
Sirens and investment bankers birds of a feather
How to tame an analyst
Advice or influence? Why firms ask government officials to be directors
Boards of directors: cliques and elites
Board-cloning - a rewarding habit
Boardroom friends
CEOs and their stock options (oh please)
Stock options, risk, and manipulations
Too hot to handle: explaining excessive top management remuneration
How to justify paying top managers too much
CEOs do seek advice if you pay them for it
Dirty laundry: who is hiding the bad stuff?
6: Myths in management
No stranger than fiction
Say you will - that'll do
Right again! Managers and their self-fulfilling prophecies
Your expectations manage you
"Reverse causality" - sorry, but life's not that simple
Eating Uncle Ed - dont worry, its called downsizing
Does downsizing ever work?
Who can downsize without detriment?
What management bandwagons bring
Remember this one: "total quality management"?
ISO 9000 makes you reliable, myopi