{"id":500,"date":"2011-10-14T19:50:49","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T19:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.department99.com\/bobamter\/?p=500"},"modified":"2012-09-14T17:21:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T17:21:39","slug":"what-leads-to-business-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobamter.com\/?p=500","title":{"rendered":"What Leads to Business Failure?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Keough\">Donald Keough<\/a>\u2019s book\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/amazon.com\/Ten-Commandments-Business-Failure\/dp\/1591842344\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1217849782&amp;sr=1-1\">\u201cThe Ten Commandments for Business Failure\u201d<\/a><\/em>is an interesting, creditable book useful to Chief Executive Officers with a company culture that needs improvement. Donald Keough is the former President of The Coca-Cola Company.<\/p>\n<p>The book is a short, easy read that covers all the elements of a positive culture. Some of it is self-evident. But if officers, second and third tier managers all read it, it would contribute to a re-focused culture. It would put everyone on the same page.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Commandments that lead to Business Failure:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>One:<\/em> Quit Taking Risks<\/p>\n<p><em>Two:<\/em> Be Inflexible<\/p>\n<p><em>Three:<\/em> Isolate Yourself<\/p>\n<p><em>Four<\/em>: Assume Infallibility<\/p>\n<p><em>Five:<\/em> Play the Game Close to the Foul Line. (i.e., a culture of self-dealing and corruption.)<\/p>\n<p><em>Six:<\/em> Don\u2019t Take time to Think<\/p>\n<p><em>Seven:<\/em> Put All Your Faith in Experts and Outside Consultants<\/p>\n<p><em>Eight:<\/em> Love Your Bureaucracy<\/p>\n<p><em>Nine:<\/em> Send Mixed Messages<\/p>\n<p><em>Ten:<\/em> Be Afraid of the Future<\/p>\n<p><em>Eleven*:<\/em> Lose Your Passion for Work \u2013 for Life<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>(*The title of the book is \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ten-Commandments-Business-Failure\/dp\/1591842344\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1217849782&amp;sr=1-1\">Ten Commandments\u2026\u201d. Mr. Keough<\/a> has included an Eleventh as \u201ca little added bonus\u201d.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"https:\/\/bobamter.com\/?p=500\" data-text=\"What Leads to Business Failure?\" data-count=\"horizontal\">Tweet<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Keough\u2019s book\u00a0\u201cThe Ten Commandments for Business Failure\u201dis an interesting, creditable book useful to Chief Executive Officers with a company culture that needs improvement. Donald Keough is the former President of The Coca-Cola Company. The book is a short, easy read that covers all the elements of a positive culture. Some of it is self-evident. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,8,44,36,20,14,46,78],"tags":[57,112,238,21,67,22,113,242,61],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bankruptcies","category-bankruptcy","category-blog","category-books","category-business-failure","category-ceos","category-chief-executive-officer","category-leadership","tag-better-business","tag-board-of-directors","tag-books","tag-business-failure-2","tag-chief-executive-officers","tag-donald-keough","tag-healthy-environment","tag-leadership","tag-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobamter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobamter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobamter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobamter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobamter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/bobamter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"https:\/\/bobamter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/1024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobamter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobamter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobamter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobamter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}