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Corporate Failure by Design: Why Organizations Are Built to Fail

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Dr. Klein's book is nothing less than an intellectual thrill-ride through the dark and exciting mysteries of organizational life. I would give "Corporate Failure" the ultimate praise for such a scholarly and profound work: I couldn't put it down! A true masterpiece: a must-read!

Within a deceptively short amount of space, "Corporate Failure" delivers a massive amount of information and insights, serving as a veritable encyclopedia of reasons for corporate demise. Probably the most important book I've ever seen on the subject of organizations.

I never knew that a book on organization and management could be so spine-tingling and intriguing. Corporate failure is staring all of us right in the face: this book dramatically tells us how, why, and what to do about it. A MASTERPIECE of a book!

Jonathan Klein has covered the full gamut of reasons for corporate failure, at the depth they demand. By demonstrating their multiplicity and complexity, Professor Klein has effectively demonstrated that corporate failure is not a subject for intellectual lightweights. Probably the most important management book out there!

This book should be required reading for every Organizational Management course One of the best books on management written. Dr. Klein is insightful, and controversial treatise on corporate design; illustrating and backing his points with empirical research and real-life examples. This book of organization will prepare you to understand what is really happening in your world.Jonathan Klein has, in essence, produced a image in which corporations can see themselves reflected.

What a great concept for a book! I bought this book on the title alone to read Mr. Klein's thoughts on this very intruiging concept. Unfortunately, what I bought was a Ph.D. thesis written for Ph.D.s and graduate students preparing to become Ph.D.s. Required reading for every manager and executive? I think not - not until it's translated into English.

This book is a MUST READ for anyone that entertains the idea of being part of the "Business World". Dr. Klein has pulled no punches in this insightful, hard-hitting, and controversial treatise on corporate design; illustrating and backing his points with empirical research and real-life examples. From the self-destructive design of tasks to the death knoll of "performance evaluations", Dr. Klein eruditely states the reasons and methodology that organizations use to design failure into their very desire to exist. Reading Dr. Klein's masterful indictment of today's organization will prepare you to understand what is really happening in your department, division, SBU, or entire organization when you punch that time clock in the morning. You will be better prepared than your peers to meet the challenges to organizational longevity that are designed into company structure and culture. This book is required reading for all managers; point blankly, it should be required reading for every Organizational Management course taught in Business Schools today... from California Lutheran University to Harvard.

What is the sound of one organization failing? It may be the very "vibrations" that have become familiar to you every day at work. In his probing analysis, Jonathan Klein has, in essence, produced a mirror in which corporations can see reflected their own hidden shortcomings, pitfalls, and disastrous trends toward demise. It is the very humanness of each organization that predisposes it to failure. And it is this same humanity, made conscious, that can bring about a life-saving organizational conversion.