Mean Business: How I Save Bad Companies and Make Good Companies Great

Mean Business is Al Dunlap's specific battle-tested program for business success. It's all based on his incredible track record of injecting new life into tired companies, best exemplified by the dramatic turnaround he quarterbacked at Scott Paper.
When Dunlap became chairman and CEO in April 1994, Scott was in woeful shape: a $277 million loss in 1993, on credit watch for excessive debt, a stock that had been comatose for seven years. In a mere nineteen months, Scott had record earnings, the stock had increased in value by $6.5 billion (over 200 percent), and Dunlap merged Scott with Kimberly Clark in a stock swap that valued Scott at $9 billion and created the second largest consumer-products company in the United States.
Mean Business provides the inside story behind the strategic thinking that guided Dunlap's quest to once again make Scott a world-class competitor.