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Title: 2009 Jim Collins book "How the Mighty Fall" is very similar
Review: Both this 2004 Sydney Finkelstein book "Why Smart Executives Fail" and the 2009 Jim Collins book "How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In" carry a similar message, and even share several of the case studies.This 2004 Finkelstein book's chapters on "Seven Habits of Spectacularly Unsuccessful People" and the concluding "How Smart Executives Learn" are real gems. The 2007 Douglas Hubbard book "How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business" supplements the "How Smart Executives Learn" chapter by suggesting ways that top executives can be trained to more accurately assess risk.Jim Collin's table of "Leadership Team Dynamics: On the Way Down versus On the Way Up" is also particularly good.My conclusion would be that the (longer) Finkelstein book seems to include many more practical guidelines as to ways of fixing what is broken, rather than merely concentrating on how to detect what is broken.
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