Business Survival Vol. IV, Soundview Executive Book SummariesBusiness Survival Vol. IV, Soundview Executive Book Summaries is a collection of Soundview Summaries that will help you manage and prosper through these tough times. The titles include Intelligent M&A, Winning the Merger Endgame, and The Complexity Crisis. Buy the collection and get three for the price of two. Titles are also sold individually.
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- Captures all of the key points of the original book.
- All titles have been chosen by Soundview Executive Book Summaries as among the best 30 books of the year in which they were published.
Intelligent M&A by Scott Moeller, Chris Brady: Mergers and acquisitions have played a dominant role in shaping and reshaping the global corporate landscape in the last century. If the sheer numbers of deals aren’t grabbing headlines, the size and scope of the deals that are made cannot help but command the attention of investors world over. In Intelligent M&A, Moeller and Brady set forth a solid strategy for thriving in the high-stakes, high-stress environment for corporate mergers and acquisitions.
The Complexity Crisis by John Mariotti: Executives today face a crisis — a crisis of complexity. As you seek to expand profits, a number of new products, procedures and systems are created that, unexpectedly, stifle your bottom line. To this problem, Mariotti has the solution: simplify. In this far-reaching study, he shows corporate America that “keep it simple” is the way out of the Complexity Crisis.
Winning the Merger Endgame by Stefan Zeisel, Graeme K. Deans, Dr. Fritz Kroeger: After studying mergers in many industries through the 1990s, the authors of Winning the Merger Endgame, officers and consultants from A.T. Kearney, have discovered that all industries move through four stages of what they call the “Endgames Curve” toward inevitable consolidation. The path up the curve starts with the Opening Stage where industries begin and companies proliferate. In the Scale Stage companies acquire other companies as they realize that organic growth will not push them to success. As industries move into the Focus Stage, mega-mergers become the norm. In the final Balance and Alliance Stage companies must find a way to reinvent themselves or die. Winning the Merger Endgame shows companies how they can successfully move through these stages.
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