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Three Plus One Equals Billions: The Bendix-Martin Marietta War
A journalist and financial expert investigates the motives and clarifies the issues of the corporate takeover attempt involving Bendix and Martin Marietta
272 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 1983
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October 23, 2022
Incredible.
People don't learn.
The degree of self-deception.
How hubris claims even the highest flyers, or perhaps it's because they're the highest flyers.
Has no one in management ever spent time on a playground and understood there were fights not to pick?
History repeated itself again in the RJR Nabisco story, many of those players couldn't see what happened just down the road, no matter how famous it was.
I think the book unfairly criticizes the Harvard Business School method, and yet our American business philosophy isn't working. We lost to a bunch of Communists, after all.
I am surprised this book doesn't have a larger following.
People don't learn.
The degree of self-deception.
How hubris claims even the highest flyers, or perhaps it's because they're the highest flyers.
Has no one in management ever spent time on a playground and understood there were fights not to pick?
History repeated itself again in the RJR Nabisco story, many of those players couldn't see what happened just down the road, no matter how famous it was.
I think the book unfairly criticizes the Harvard Business School method, and yet our American business philosophy isn't working. We lost to a bunch of Communists, after all.
I am surprised this book doesn't have a larger following.
February 28, 2021
What a tale of woe this is!
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