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Failure: The Blog 
February 2012
January 2012
- Offensive Advertising, Increased Sales?
- I Sold Out For Millions, Then Worked At McDonald's
- Steve Jobs on Failure
- The Famous Western Failure
- Thank Goodness for Drug Addicts
December 2011
- It's a Wonderful Failure
- Stadium Destroyed, Reborn
- Failure to Trust the Astronauts
- Failure and the Baggy Pants Tradition
- Failure at The Happiest Place on Earth
- Saving What Was Lost
- FailureBank: A Social Learning Utility
November 2011
- A Thanksgiving Failure
- Harriet Tubman's Clever Lie
- The Failures of Lemieux
- Failed to Return a Text
- Admitting Failure
- A Leaders Job: Support Failure
October 2011
- [VIDEO] Mistakes with Tasty Dum Dums
- Failure and the Chocolate Chip Cookie
- Failure Goes Digital
- Using AIDS to Fight Cancer
- Victory Despite Obstacles
September 2011
Archive for August, 2010
Paul Poteet: Professional Failure
Veteran Indiana broadcaster Paul Poteet has won countless awards and shared the news with Hoosiers for decades. Also, he’s been fired from job after job.
Google Wave: Failed Victory
Remember Google Wave, the technology that was supposed to change everything? Earlier this month, Google announced it was shutting it down.
Advice From A Failure
We get inspirations from failures from everywhere. Here’s an inspiring poem I found on the web.
Popular Music
Trivia question: What was the first piece of instrumental sheet music to sell over one million copies? You might be surprised to learn it’s a song by someone that most would probably expect to fail.
Failure and Memory
Ten years ago, right here in Indianapolis, Indiana, two men were having a conversation on the way to the airport. They suddenly realized that the old way of keeping quiet about medical research was entirely wrong.
Self Checkout: Not Faster
In the last few years, countless retail stores have installed self-checkout machines. It turns out that scanning and bagging your purchases actually takes more time. So why do we do it?
Quitting With Flair
In the last two weeks, the Internet has lit up with conversations about two dramatic stories of people quitting their jobs. Why do we care so much about those who have risked their own careers?
Michael Jordan’s Failure
Michael Jordan thinks maybe it’s his fault that young athletes aren’t performing. That’s the basis of a new online video clip.
Purposeful Mistakes
If you swear that a word in a dictionary or a spot on a map just can’t be right, you might be correct. Turns out that cartographers and lexicographers make intentional mistakes to thwart people who would steal their work.
Failure to Communicate
Everyone has had the experience of being certain that another person has ignored their instructions. What’s the right way to bring success out of this obvious failure?