Too Good To Fail?: How Management Gets It Wrong and How You Can Get It Right, 1st edition

Published by FT Publishing International (2 July 2013) © 2014

  • Jan Filochowski
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Title overview

Business leaders the world over are hardwired to focus on success. But what if understanding failure is the real secret behind enduring performance?

 

In Too Good To Fail?, Jan Filochowski turns his twenty years’ experience as a CEO and turnaround specialist into practical advice for business managers. 

Table of contents

  • PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING FAILURE 
  • Chapter 1 – Mentioning the Unmentionable 
  • Chapter 2 – The Pattern of Failure: The Yosemite Curve   
  • Chapter 3 – Other Types of Failure  
  • PART TWO:  AVOIDING FAILURE  
  • Chapter 4 – Passive Warning Signs
  • Chapter 5 – Active Alarm bells  
  • Chapter 6 – The cultural litmus test
  • PART THREE: CURING FAILURE  
  • Chapter 7 – Regaining confidence
  • Chapter 8 – Getting back in control  
  • PART FOUR: SUCCEEDING  
  • Chapter 9 – The opposite of failure 
  • Chapter 10 – The importance of being honest 
  • Chapter 11 – Mining the data
  • Chapter 12 – Fault tolerance, randomness and pattern  
  • Chapter 13 – Gauging the environment 
  • Chapter 14 – The attentive manager
  • Final thoughts  
  • Appendix:  A Personal Account 

 

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