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The High Cost of Doing Nothing: Why Good Companies Go Bad, How to Avoid Troubles and Assure Success, Painting the Big Picture of Business Knowledge
Why do good companies go bad? Why do they start with so much energy and promise but end up mired in bureaucracy and plodding toward mediocrity and failure? Answers to those questions can be found in The High Cost of Doing Nothing by Hank Moore. The High Cost of Doing Nothing examines business dynamics from a "big picture" perspective, analyzes why companies fail to live up to their potential, and guides business leaders in how to surmount the obstacles to success. The book examines the top 100 mistakes that companies make and the 100 biggest excuses they use to rationalize and cover up company problems. It demonstrates how companies over-represent themselves and their products to make sales, then get caught up in their own word games. It also explores why companies fail at customer service. But The High Cost of Doing Nothing also offers positive guidance toward corporate success. It describes how to make collaboration, partnering, and joint venturing work effectively, how to implement successful training, and how to choose the right consultants. It also offers step-by-step guidance to creative problem-solving and corporate planning approaches.
224 pages, Hardcover
First published October 1, 2002
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March 11, 2012
"Your words of support mean likely more than you realize. Your support makes this--and all other
projects--worthwhile. I don't know where on earth you find this depth and scope of material! Thank you for being the masterful communicator that you are."Drew Eric Whitman
:Thanks for your expanded definitions of business and life vantage points...great stuff."
Linda Pickard
"Bold, a bit brash, but right on the mark. Inspire your executives and up your profits. Hank Moore uses foresight to develop hindsight which creates the insights to grow your company."
Peter Edles
"As we increase our awareness and continually become more educated, we can do so much more good for all."Pamela Terry
"So enjoyed your insights and depth of experiences. It's always a pleasure to have intellectual stuff to make up for the fluff that surrounds us. God bless."Larry Sachnowitz
I think your "What I learned" section should be posted in everyone's office, and in many people's homes. Then again, maybe they are. Then again, I wonder if they're read more than once. Then again, I wonder if they're really understood in the first place? Marvelous writing.
Peter Edles
A lot of your work strikes me as bringing consciousness to business.
John Dorsa
Great job Hank!! Keep on doing what you do best!
Lisa Bell
Your brilliance always shines through!
Sheri Schwartz
The truth is out there. If we keep singing, they will listen. Thanks for the stimulating ideas and for challenging me to think... and think again.
Allen Phillips
I was delighted and heartened to read about your work with so many deserving client organizations...so important and necessary. I can't imagine anyone who could have brought them through their situations and helped them to see the big picture better than you. How fortunate for them that someone who'd already seen the crises and appropriate responses over the years could help them put this into perspective and to consider innovative solutions. I can not only read, but also imagine their gratitude and sense of newfound hope. Planning to avoid where possible, such tragedies, I'm sure was well-communicated. Your work encourages me that there is a niche for the genuine strategic thinker and business advisor.
Connie Maxfield
You are a great idea person, and perhaps the greatest one that I know! Thanks for the words of wisdom. Only you could have come up with them.
Carolyn White
I was reading your "words" again. You have a great ability to do what you do. I found it fascinating. As usual, very incisive.
Bill Spitz
I always wondered who actually originates clever new business concepts such as your organizational-emphasis re-arrangements. Now I know -- Hank Moore!
Thora Qaddumi
projects--worthwhile. I don't know where on earth you find this depth and scope of material! Thank you for being the masterful communicator that you are."Drew Eric Whitman
:Thanks for your expanded definitions of business and life vantage points...great stuff."
Linda Pickard
"Bold, a bit brash, but right on the mark. Inspire your executives and up your profits. Hank Moore uses foresight to develop hindsight which creates the insights to grow your company."
Peter Edles
"As we increase our awareness and continually become more educated, we can do so much more good for all."Pamela Terry
"So enjoyed your insights and depth of experiences. It's always a pleasure to have intellectual stuff to make up for the fluff that surrounds us. God bless."Larry Sachnowitz
I think your "What I learned" section should be posted in everyone's office, and in many people's homes. Then again, maybe they are. Then again, I wonder if they're read more than once. Then again, I wonder if they're really understood in the first place? Marvelous writing.
Peter Edles
A lot of your work strikes me as bringing consciousness to business.
John Dorsa
Great job Hank!! Keep on doing what you do best!
Lisa Bell
Your brilliance always shines through!
Sheri Schwartz
The truth is out there. If we keep singing, they will listen. Thanks for the stimulating ideas and for challenging me to think... and think again.
Allen Phillips
I was delighted and heartened to read about your work with so many deserving client organizations...so important and necessary. I can't imagine anyone who could have brought them through their situations and helped them to see the big picture better than you. How fortunate for them that someone who'd already seen the crises and appropriate responses over the years could help them put this into perspective and to consider innovative solutions. I can not only read, but also imagine their gratitude and sense of newfound hope. Planning to avoid where possible, such tragedies, I'm sure was well-communicated. Your work encourages me that there is a niche for the genuine strategic thinker and business advisor.
Connie Maxfield
You are a great idea person, and perhaps the greatest one that I know! Thanks for the words of wisdom. Only you could have come up with them.
Carolyn White
I was reading your "words" again. You have a great ability to do what you do. I found it fascinating. As usual, very incisive.
Bill Spitz
I always wondered who actually originates clever new business concepts such as your organizational-emphasis re-arrangements. Now I know -- Hank Moore!
Thora Qaddumi
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