Figgie international
Critical Notes
MBA, HEC, UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE
Cours de Gestion des Ressources Humaines
Prof. S. Haefliger
Jiawei Liu
2003
Critical notes
Dangerous Company
CONTENTS
Preface ........................................................................................3
About the Authors ......................................................................3
Book content ..............................................................................3
Story of “Figgie International”...................................................4
What we can learn from the book? ........................................6
My comments on the book ......................................................8
Recommendation – combined reading ..............................10
Jiawei Liu
2
Critical notes
Dangerous Company
Preface
The book first caught my eye with its astonishing title “Dangerous Company”.
Opening the book, I found the content is even more interesting – Management
Consultants and the business they save and ruin.
External consultants can be considered as external human resources for an enterprise and this source had become extremely powerful during the course of last several decades. The fact that this subject is not covered in the MBA course make it worthwhile for reading.
About the Authors
James O’Shea is the deputy managing editor for foreign and national news at the
Chicago Tribune, USA
Madigan is a senior business writer at Chicago Tribune, USA
Book content
Dangerous Company is the first detailed examination of the business of management consulting, the closest look to date at what goes right, what goes wrong, who gets the benefits, and who pays the price.
It presents a set of object
lessons for every one who will be the consultants, who is consultants and who will work with consultants. It is a book about wrongheaded conspiracies at the top, flubbed assumptions, brilliant performances and many varieties of
MBA, HEC, UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE
Cours de Gestion des Ressources Humaines
Prof. S. Haefliger
Jiawei Liu
2003
Critical notes
Dangerous Company
CONTENTS
Preface ........................................................................................3
About the Authors ......................................................................3
Book content ..............................................................................3
Story of “Figgie International”...................................................4
What we can learn from the book? ........................................6
My comments on the book ......................................................8
Recommendation – combined reading ..............................10
Jiawei Liu
2
Critical notes
Dangerous Company
Preface
The book first caught my eye with its astonishing title “Dangerous Company”.
Opening the book, I found the content is even more interesting – Management
Consultants and the business they save and ruin.
External consultants can be considered as external human resources for an enterprise and this source had become extremely powerful during the course of last several decades. The fact that this subject is not covered in the MBA course make it worthwhile for reading.
About the Authors
James O’Shea is the deputy managing editor for foreign and national news at the
Chicago Tribune, USA
Madigan is a senior business writer at Chicago Tribune, USA
Book content
Dangerous Company is the first detailed examination of the business of management consulting, the closest look to date at what goes right, what goes wrong, who gets the benefits, and who pays the price.
It presents a set of object
lessons for every one who will be the consultants, who is consultants and who will work with consultants. It is a book about wrongheaded conspiracies at the top, flubbed assumptions, brilliant performances and many varieties of