The phoenix effect : 9 revitalizing strategies no business can do without / Carter Pate, Harlan Platt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pate, Carter.

Contributor:

Platt, Harlan D., 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Strategic planning.

Organizational effectiveness.

Decision making.

Problem solving.

Physical Description:

xii, 244 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : J. Wiley, 2002.

Summary:

International turn-around gurus describe how to rescue a company from the brink of disaster Why, even in the best of economic times, do so many apparently healthy companies fail? The surprising answer offered by the authors of this breakthrough book is "denial, " or more specifically, the inability of top management to acknowledge that they've been backing a losing strategy and to take the necessary, often traumatizing, steps required to set their companies on the right course. Using cogent case studies and lessons learned from working with Fortune 500 executives who have survived tough turnarounds, Pate and Platt vividly describe what happens when good strategies go bad. Drawing upon their experiences at top firms, they develop proven real-world turnaround strategies, tools, and techniques and show readers how to put them to work in their companies.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Get to the Point of Pain 1

Chapter 2 Determine the Scope 17

Chapter 3 Orient the Business 45

Chapter 4 Manage Scale 71

Chapter 5 Handle Debt 87

Chapter 6 Get the Most from Assets 113

Chapter 7 Get the Most from Employees 135

Chapter 8 Get the Most from Products 159

Chapter 9 Produce the Product 187

Chapter 10 Change the Process 207.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-237) and index.

ISBN:

0471062626

OCLC:

48572260