Read: Collins, How the Mighty Fall, 2009. ISBN 9780977326419

The author references the "silver bullet," or lack thereof, throughout the book; to what is he referring? Explain.

Reference some of the companies highlighted in the book as examples to help relay your understanding of each of the following stages of decline:

Hubris born of success

Undisciplined pursuit of more

Denial of risk and peril

Grasping for salvation

Capitulation to irrelevance or death

1. How can strategy be renewed from "well-founded hope?"