The 7 Sins of the CEO -- Seven Errors and Countermeasures for Destroying Business Managers

Author: Michael D. Burton
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Publish Date: 2003-05-01
Features: "During my days leading Intel, as the Chinese proverb goes, 'I reflect on myself three times a day,' to prevent any of my mistakes from harming my company. 'The Seven Sins of a CEO' is like a mirror, reflecting my strengths and weaknesses." This is a book worth reading. After finishing it, I realized that there are so many potential dangers. Since its publication in the United States in September 2002, the English edition of this book has consistently ranked at the top of the bestseller list for three consecutive months. In recent years, due to the global economic downturn, many multinational companies have gone bankrupt or fallen into difficulties. To explore the root causes, this book combines cases of successful and failed companies to analyze the seven fundamental reasons that lead businesses from prosperity to decline: being intoxicated by past success and unable to extricate oneself, hiding from one's own illness, high-risk gambling, obsessive pursuit of the speed and scale of business development, neglecting human management, mishandling crises, and ignoring moral and integrity principles, and so on. It is a wake-up call that shakes one to the core, making it an invaluable for modern business development.