http://www.devilsadvocategroup.com We Stress Test Your Strategies Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:46:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.devilsadvocategroup.com/another-best-of-2008-award-this-time-from-cio-insight/ http://www.devilsadvocategroup.com/another-best-of-2008-award-this-time-from-cio-insight/#comments Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:16:40 +0000 Paul Carroll and Chunka Mui http://www.billiondollarlessons.com/?p=196 CIO Insight Magazine named Billion-Dollar Lessons one of the top 10 business-tech books of 2008. This award follows similar recognition from several other prestigious publications. The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper, named Billion-Dollar Lessons the #1 business book of 2008. Inc. Magazine named it one of the best books for business owners in 2008.]]> http://www.devilsadvocategroup.com/another-best-of-2008-award-this-time-from-cio-insight/feed/ 0 http://www.devilsadvocategroup.com/inc-magazine-best-books-for-business-owners-2008/ http://www.devilsadvocategroup.com/inc-magazine-best-books-for-business-owners-2008/#comments Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:50:43 +0000 Paul Carroll and Chunka Mui http://www.billiondollarlessons.com/?p=182 Inc. Magazine names Billion Dollar Lessons one of the best books for business owners in 2008. "Success is inspirational; disaster is educational. Billion Dollar Lessons offers an exhaustive curriculum on how not to run a company. This is a great book for decision-makers anxious to eliminate their own vulnerabilities."]]> http://www.devilsadvocategroup.com/inc-magazine-best-books-for-business-owners-2008/feed/ 0 http://www.devilsadvocategroup.com/the-globe-and-mail-billion-dollar-lessons-is-1-business-book-of-2008/ http://www.devilsadvocategroup.com/the-globe-and-mail-billion-dollar-lessons-is-1-business-book-of-2008/#comments Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:08:35 +0000 Paul Carroll and Chunka Mui http://www.billiondollarlessons.com/?p=178 Billion-Dollar Lessons has been named the best business book of the 2008 in The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper! Best of the best: intelligent, clear, filled with advice The authors' study of colossal business failure found that strategy was invariably the cause. They pinpoint seven popular strategies that can lead a company off the rails: Foolhardy pursuit of synergy, financial engineering, rollups of mom and pop operations, steadfastly refusing to switch from a misguided course, moving into an adjacent market, riding the wrong new technology, and consolidation. The list is a catalogue of strategies that companies are routinely urged to follow and that can work - but also can lead to disaster. The authors provide sobering examples of failed companies as well as tough questions to ask when considering any of these strategies.]]> http://www.devilsadvocategroup.com/the-globe-and-mail-billion-dollar-lessons-is-1-business-book-of-2008/feed/ 0