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Run to Failure: BP and the Making of the Deepwater Horizon DisasterBP bought one company after another and then relentlessly fired employees and cut costs. It skipped safety procedures, pumped toxic chemicals back into the ground, and let equipment languish, even while Browne claimed a new era of environmentally sustainable business as his own. For a while the strategy worked, making BP one of the most profitable corporations in the world. Then it all began to unravel, in felony convictions for environmental crimes
BP bought one company after another and then relentlessly fired employees and cut costs. It skipped safety procedures, pumped toxic chemicals back into the ground, and let equipment languish, even while Browne claimed a new era of environmentally sustainable business as his own. For a while the strategy worked, making BP one of the most profitable corporations in the world. Then it all began to unravel, in felony convictions for environmental crimes and in one deadly accident after another. Employees and regulators warned that BP's problems, unfixed, were spinning out of control, that another disaster--bigger and deadlier--was inevitable. Nobody was listening.
Having reported on business and the energy industry for nearly a decade, Abrahm Lustgarten uses interviews with key executives, former government investigators, and whistle-blowers along with his exclusive access to BP's internal documents and emails to weave a spellbinding investigative narrative of hubris and greed well before the gulf oil spill.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 03/26/2012
ISBN: 9780393081626
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.60w x 1.40d
Review Citations: Library Journal 10/15/2011 pg. 62
Publishers Weekly 12/19/2011
Library Journal 02/01/2012 pg. 84
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2012
Booklist 03/01/2012 pg. 33
Choice 09/01/2012
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Great book
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This book is excellent, it is very comprehensive with the workbook and a practical guide on how to start and operate your business. This will be helpful for new starters.
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The basics of building a business
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This workbook is a companion piece to the book of the same name. It takes a start up entrepreneur through all the initial barriers to start up, methods to overcome barriers and fundamentals of starting up a business. I like the way it starts at the beginning of developing a vision and mission statement and continues to walk you through defining your ideal customer, goal setting, developing a unique value proposition and a business model canvas. It emphasises the importance of a SWOT analysis and having a sound financial plan. I like the way the workbook provides space for you to work through your own thought processes and financial plan for getting your business off the ground. It is a sound method to use for a person beginning their business journey to make sure they cover all the vitally important steps to starting their own business.
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I can't even give this one star, but I had to put at least one. SUCH a disappointment!! It says "workbook" and it is nothing of the sort! There are 34 pages of "content" which is almost useless. Just about anyone going into a business would know what's there. Don't waste your money!!
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a useful and concise workbook for budding entrepreneurs
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The "How to Start Your Own Business - Workbook" (by Waldoβs Publishing Company) is a structured 50-page guide aimed at aspiring entrepreneurs who are looking for guidance about how to launch and grow a business. .
This concise workbook includes exercises, checklists, and insights covering topics such as business planning, branding, legal structures, marketing, and operational setup in an interactive format that helps readers to apply the book's concepts to build a strong foundation for their companies β Making the book potentially beneficial for less experienced business owners who may be looking for a practical roadmap that they can use to transform their ideas into reality. .
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