#810654 in eBooks 2002-07-10 2002-07-10File Name: B001QCX4I62 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A Keeper (even with some issues)By Critical GradI was assigned this book as part of a Master's degree course. Without having anything to gain from writing this review, let me just say that I fully recommend it to any faculty member looking for a good communication or business supplemental text.Paul Nutt does the following well:-Introduce concepts and best practices that can be utilized in any field-Apply said concepts to a series of well-publiciFrom Library JournalNutt (management, Ohio State Univ.) has spent 20 years collecting and studying more than 400 decisions made by upper-level management in corporate, government, and nonprofit organizations. Here, he selects 15 decisions that led to debacles and gives the background for each decisiWhy Decisions Fail critiques 15 infamously bad decisions that became public debacles. The author examines how these mistakes could have been avoided and explains how any organization's decision-making process can be improved to prevent such failures.Author Paul Nutt began by looking at 400 decisions made by top managers involving such topics as products and services, pricing and markets, personnel policy, technology acquisition, and strategic reorganization. Analyzing how each decision was made,...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Why Decisions Fail: Avoiding the Blunders and Traps That Lead to Debacles | . I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
