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Failure: The Blog  

October 2012

  • 'Goldeneye' Creators Had Almost No Experience
  • Flushing Away an Enormous Problem
  • The Little Lie About the Biggest Mountain
  • You Should Unfriend 10 People on Facebook
  • Inventor of Most Popular Guitar Could Not Play Guitar
  • TV Show Star And High School Dropout

September 2012

  • In Praise of Mediocrity
  • The Failure to Patent a Billion Dollar Formula
  • This Bus Stop is a Fake
  • [VIDEO] A Hollywood Camera Move Made From Junk
  • Productivity Through Self Denial?
  • Harvard Business Review: Get Ready to Fail

August 2012

  • The Innovative Power of Lying
  • [VIDEO] You're Not That Great
  • The Failure of a Great Singer
  • James Cameron was Homeless
  • Something Worse Than Failure
  • Jackie Chan and the Plan to Fail
  • On Failure and Baseball

July 2012

  • Failure on the Radio
  • Complaint Calls Can Be Useful
  • The Terribly Useful Terrible Movie
  • FedEx's Big Gamble (No, Really)
  • Positive Fail, Dot Com
  • How Boring Attire Wins

June 2012

  • [VIDEO] Failing to Success / Harvard Business Review
  • Sly Stallone's Failures
  • The Secret Purpose of Computer Solitaire

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Archive for 2010

Unbelievable Flight Risk

December 26th, 2010
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Commercial airliners are designed to carry massive payloads safely, efficiently and economically. So what would inspire a test pilot to try crazy aerial stunts with one of this enormous machines?

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No Mistakes Kills Your Career

December 22nd, 2010
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A new piece shared by reader Carissa Newton explains Six Ways To Kill Your Marketing Career. The number one method: you don’t make any mistakes.

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The Gift of Suckiness

December 20th, 2010
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Chris Flink, a principal with the famous design firm IDEO, explains that “suckiness is opportunity.” In other words, Failure is the secret to success

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Bribery and Failure

December 17th, 2010
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The multinational firm Halliburton doesn’t have a flawless reputation. A new story that they trying to pay off Nigeria, however, sparks an interesting discussion.

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Women, Science and Stereotypes

December 12th, 2010
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There’s a completely unfair stereotype that women are “bad” at subjects like science and math and “good” at subjects such as writing or art. However, it turns out that using this stereotype can actually boost performance.

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10 Mistakes In Business

December 3rd, 2010
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You’re about to read the title of a Wall Street Journal article. It’s almost guaranteed that you’re going to want to click to read more.

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Learning From Mistakes

November 30th, 2010
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There’s an old story about a computer programmer who openly talked to the press. He accurately reported the number of known bugs in a program, and thus risked the product’s success.

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Best-Selling Authors on Failure

November 24th, 2010
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Reader Andy Huston provided a link to this video on failure, starring bestselling authors Tim Ferris and Ramit Sethi.

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#1 Reason for Business Failure

November 22nd, 2010
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If you’ve ever wondered why businesses fail, a recent study has the answer. In two words: bad management.

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Weathering the Storm

November 18th, 2010
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According to a new article in Psychology Today, failure may actually be essential for our mental health.

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