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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 2 of 4

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K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. economy spent one trillion dollars fixing and treating the so-called Y2K Bug, which we now know was a manufactured “crisis” by technology consulting companies. In 1999, the U.S. Consider leaving a comment!

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

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The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. Technology companies must now learn the lessons that steady-growth companies in other industries absorbed. I advised several technology companies during their gravy years. Executives never stayed long. He has advised two U.S.