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Relying on complex accounting or financing tricks rather than real business growth.

Betting heavily on a technology that is either premature or fundamentally flawed, such as Motorola’s $5 billion Iridium satellite phone project. Billion Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from...

Overestimating the revenue or cost benefits of a merger. Executives often fail to do the detailed work needed to confirm these gains actually exist. Relying on complex accounting or financing tricks rather