Description
A family business prospers through a series of brutal consolidations and rational growth. Then senseless internal conflicts lead to a long line of demented CEOs, monumental expansion, and foolish diversification--at a high cost in shattered lives. In the end, a series of reverse takeovers leaves the once-proud but now overextended and corrupt parent company at the mercy of less-civilized operations that previously cringed at the grandeur of the corporate brand.
Enron? WorldCom? Try Rome, whose rise and fall carry a moral that lingers to this day for the managers, employees, and students of any global enterprise. Stanley Bing--whose satirical business books are as savagely funny as they are insightful--mingles business parable and cautionary tale into an ingenious, often hilarious new telling of the story of the Roman Empire.
Author: Stanley Bing
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 02/01/2007
Pages: 214
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.38w x 0.57d
ISBN13: 9780393329452
ISBN10: 0393329453
BISAC Categories:
- History | Ancient | Rome
- Business & Economics | Economic History
- Business & Economics | Corporate & Business History | General
Enron? WorldCom? Try Rome, whose rise and fall carry a moral that lingers to this day for the managers, employees, and students of any global enterprise. Stanley Bing--whose satirical business books are as savagely funny as they are insightful--mingles business parable and cautionary tale into an ingenious, often hilarious new telling of the story of the Roman Empire.
Author: Stanley Bing
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 02/01/2007
Pages: 214
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.38w x 0.57d
ISBN13: 9780393329452
ISBN10: 0393329453
BISAC Categories:
- History | Ancient | Rome
- Business & Economics | Economic History
- Business & Economics | Corporate & Business History | General