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The Self-Destructive Habits of Good Companies: ...And How to Break Them

von Jagdish N. Sheth

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Why Even Great Companies Fail: Diagnose the Symptoms and Cure Them! Conqueror preventthe seven disastrous addictions that can destroy your company Overcome corporate denial, arrogance, complacency, competency dependence, turf wars, and more For every executive, strategist, entrepreneur, and manager who wants to sustain success GM. Ford. AT&T. Sears. Firestone. Krispy Kreme. Digital. Kodak. Once, they were riding high, the exemplars of business excellence. Then, disaster. Is your company headed for the same fate? How do you know? How do you change course? Find out. Shine a light on the dark places in your business. Uncover your self-destructive habits before they destroy you. The blinders, culture confl icts, and corporate denial. The competitive myopia. The focus on volume, not profits. Root them outall of them. Then, instill the good habits your business needs: the habits of sustainable profitability and market leadership. This book shows you howin detail, from start to finish. Why do so many good companies engage in self-destructive behavior? This book identifies seven dangerous habits even well-run companies fall victim toand helps you diagnose and break these habits before they destroy you. Through case studies from some of yesterdays most widely praised corporate icons, youll learn how companies slip into addiction and slide off the rails...why some never turn around...and how others achieve powerful turnarounds, moving on to unprecedented levels of success. Youll learn how an obsession with volume leads inexorably to rising costs and falling margins...how companies fall victim to denial, myth, ritual, and orthodoxy... how they start wasting vital energy on culture confl ict and turf wars...how they blind themselves to emerging competition...how they become arrogant, complacent, and far too dependent on their traditional competences. Most important, youll find specific, detailed techniques for curingor, better yet, preventingevery one of these self-destructive habits. The cocoon of denial Find it, admit it, assess it, and escape it The stigma of arrogance Escape this fault that breeds in a dark, closed room The virus of complacency Six warning signs and five solutions The curse of incumbency Stop your core competencies from blinding you to new opportunities The threat of myopia Widen your view of your competitorsand the dangers they pose The obsession of volume Get beyond rising volumes and shrinking margins The ...… (mehr)
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De levensduur van organisaties wordt steeds korter. Favoriete ondernemingen van vandaag maken steeds sneller plaats voor anderen en vallen soms diep terug. Nummer één blijven blijkt lastiger dan nummer één worden. Auteur Jagdish Sheth clustert de faalfactoren van ooit succesvolle ondernemingen tot zeven eigenschappen.

Jagdish Sheth deed gedegen onderzoek naar die organisaties die de top bereikten, om er vervolgens weer, vaak in razend tempo, vanaf te vallen. Dat onderzoek bracht hij terug tot dit vlot leesbaar en praktisch hanteerbaar boek: 'The Self-Destructive Habits of Good Companies'. Sheth is boardroom consultant op het terrein van 'strategie' en 'marketing' en verbonden aan de diverse businessschools en auteur van een kleine dertig boeken.

Hij clustert de faalfactoren van ooit succesvolle ondernemingen tot een zevental eigenschappen:

1. Ontkenning
2. Arrogantie
3. Zelfvoldaanheid
4. Competentieafhankelijkheid
5. Kokervisie
6. Obsessieve groei
7. Territoriumdrift en interne oorlogen

Sheth werkt de zeven eigenschappen per hoofdstuk goed uit en onderbouwt ze met casuïstiek die dieper gaat dan het gebruikelijk anekdotisch niveau. Niet onbelangrijk voor het toepasbaar maken van zijn analyse: hij geeft per eigenschap ook een set van 'waarschuwingstekens' en 'oplossingen'. De waarschuwingen die Sheth omschrijft, zijn herkenbaar en goed te vertalen naar de eigen situatie. De aangedragen oplossingen zijn kernachtig beschreven, zonder dat hij onnodig uitwijdt met bespiegelingen over theorie en praktijk van de oplossing zelf.

Her en der vinden we hier een open deur, maar ook meer verrassende oplossingen. De belangrijkste les geeft Sheth in zijn laatste hoofdstuk: zorg dat je die oplossingen nooit nodig hebt. Want: 'Voorkomen is beter dan genezen.' Pas preventieve maatregelen toe. Hiervoor doet Sheth gelukkig enkele suggesties. Want 'bad habits' zitten diep, zijn hardnekkig en steken vaak weer de kop op. Organisaties zijn net mensen. De kracht van dit boek ligt niet zo zeer in de originaliteit van de analyse of oplossingen, maar in de ordening, het overzicht en de praktische toepasbaarheid.

Sheth is ook medeauteur van 'Firms of Endearment'. Dat boek gaat over hoe organisaties excellent presteren door uit te gaan van 'passie' en 'zingeving' en is oorspronkelijker. Toch denk ik dat iemand als Howard Shultz (oprichter Starbucks) meer heeft aan 'The Self-Destructive Habits of Good Companies' nu hij het roer weer overneemt bij zijn veelgeprezen maar nu weer kwakkelende Starbucks. Kortom: een aanrader voor adviseurs, voor managers bij ondernemingen aan de top én bij ondernemingen daar bijna zijn. ( )
  ruts | Sep 19, 2008 |
During the early 1980s, Tom Peters and Robert Waterman penned a business classic named In Search of Excellence. In it, they cited 62 “excellent” companies. Many, including Sears, Xerox, IBM and Eastman Kodiak, have faced serious problems since.

Some recovered; some struggle to recover. Some are dead; others soon will be. Although the word “institution” implies permanence, Jagdish N. Sheth argues the average life span of a corporation is plummeting. The genius of Joseph Schumpeter’s “Creative Destruction,” is becoming widely understood.

The author, a business professor at Emory University, argues that companies that rise to the level of great often sow the seeds of their own destruction. He argues the following kernels soon blossom sapping the “great one’s” potential:

1. Volume Obsession – rising costs and falling margins.
2. Denial – substituting myths, rituals and orthodoxy for vision and insight.
3. Arrogance – Need I say more?
4. Complacency – success breeds failure.
5. Competency Dependence – the curse of incumbency.
6. Competitive Myopia – a nearsighted competitive view.
7. Territorial Impulse – culture conflicts and turf wars.

The careful reader is forced to shine a light into every corner of his or her organization. Using insightful illustrations, Sheth urges business leaders to identify their self-destructive behaviors before they lead are destroyed. I particularly enjoyed the description of a company in his chapter on the Territorial Impulse described as “complex of 50-story office towers, connected only by common areas at the bottom and the top.”

This is an entertaining and insightful book. Management and executives will ignore its lessons at their own peril.

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August 27, 2007
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Why Even Great Companies Fail: Diagnose the Symptoms and Cure Them! Conqueror preventthe seven disastrous addictions that can destroy your company Overcome corporate denial, arrogance, complacency, competency dependence, turf wars, and more For every executive, strategist, entrepreneur, and manager who wants to sustain success GM. Ford. AT&T. Sears. Firestone. Krispy Kreme. Digital. Kodak. Once, they were riding high, the exemplars of business excellence. Then, disaster. Is your company headed for the same fate? How do you know? How do you change course? Find out. Shine a light on the dark places in your business. Uncover your self-destructive habits before they destroy you. The blinders, culture confl icts, and corporate denial. The competitive myopia. The focus on volume, not profits. Root them outall of them. Then, instill the good habits your business needs: the habits of sustainable profitability and market leadership. This book shows you howin detail, from start to finish. Why do so many good companies engage in self-destructive behavior? This book identifies seven dangerous habits even well-run companies fall victim toand helps you diagnose and break these habits before they destroy you. Through case studies from some of yesterdays most widely praised corporate icons, youll learn how companies slip into addiction and slide off the rails...why some never turn around...and how others achieve powerful turnarounds, moving on to unprecedented levels of success. Youll learn how an obsession with volume leads inexorably to rising costs and falling margins...how companies fall victim to denial, myth, ritual, and orthodoxy... how they start wasting vital energy on culture confl ict and turf wars...how they blind themselves to emerging competition...how they become arrogant, complacent, and far too dependent on their traditional competences. Most important, youll find specific, detailed techniques for curingor, better yet, preventingevery one of these self-destructive habits. The cocoon of denial Find it, admit it, assess it, and escape it The stigma of arrogance Escape this fault that breeds in a dark, closed room The virus of complacency Six warning signs and five solutions The curse of incumbency Stop your core competencies from blinding you to new opportunities The threat of myopia Widen your view of your competitorsand the dangers they pose The obsession of volume Get beyond rising volumes and shrinking margins The ...

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