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Corporate Planning, Avalanches and
String Some of the most successful corporations in the world have made some of the biggest, costliest blunders imaginable. What is amazing, is that these corporations were run by extremely smart, sophisticated, well-paid, well-experienced managers. They just concentrated so hard on doing what they did well, that they were blindsided by events. Often, these events are just an accumulation of little things, each of which may have been inconsequential, but which over time added up to catastrophic proportions. What is disturbing is that these catastrophes could have been avoided if someone had just been paying attention. Corporate Planning, Avalanches and String discusses a number of these catastrophes, how they occurred, and management's response. They all start out just like the dropping of grains of sand, as described in the book... “Bob Behringer is an experimental physicist at Duke University. His expertise is granular flow. He became interested in the flow of particles after reading some theoretical papers by Per Bak, a physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York. Specifically, Behringer studied the flow of particles in piles of sand. He wrote of his observations, “Drop sand a grain at a time and the pile it forms will get higher and higher until at some critical point, the very next grain causes an avalanche. Sometimes the avalanche occurs almost immediately and constitutes only a few grains sliding down the slope. At other times the grains collect far longer than seems possible, until a great many of them come crashing down at once…”
This is analogous to what happens to many businesses. Some changes are small enough that they can be accommodated in the business’ operations. Other changes can be so drastic that the company cannot accommodate them, and goes out of business. The business environment for companies in the computer, software, communications and other technological fields is sometimes overwhelming." This book provides guidance concerning how to prevent catastrophes in your company, and how to respond to catastrophes if you didn't prevent them. The price of Corporate Planning, Avalanches and String is $29.95 plus $6.00 shipping and handling. |
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