by Ron Carleton | Jul 22, 2009
In How the Mighty Fall and Why Some Companies Never Give In, Jim Collins lists five stages of corporate decline. We used them to analyze Xerox in our last post. Collins uses behavioral terms to describe how companies falter, not financial measures. We have a framework...
by Ron Carleton | Jul 6, 2009
How the Mighty Fall Jim Collins is among the best researchers and writers on management effectiveness working today. He’s turned his attention from how companies succeed to how they fail. In his new book How the Mighty Fall and Why Some Companies Never Give In,...
by Ron Carleton | Feb 12, 2009
We mentioned the absence of early warning signs in our earlier post on Satyam – especially the lack of a gap between earnings and cash flow. It turns out there were a few. We can classify them either as behavioral or financial. Behavioral Warning Signs Behavioral...
by Ron Carleton | Feb 4, 2009
It’s the biggest corporate fraud in Indian history, and the press labeled it “India’s Enron” as soon as the news broke. But Satyam looks to be worse than Enron in scope, if not in scale. How can we say that before the authorities have completed their investigation? We...
