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Failure: The Blog 
February 2012
- Unfinished, But Inhabited
- The Success of Failure, via CNN
- Einstein Actually Had Excellent Grades
- The Physics of Discarded Paper
- The Power of Failing
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
I Sold Out For Millions, Then Worked At McDonald’s
After taking a company to the highest levels and selling out for millions of dollars, one executive went to work at McDonalds. Seriously.
That’s the story of Scott Heiferman, as reported in this Business insider piece. There’s a great video interview with him, which is embedded below:
He only worked there for a few weeks, but it was a break for him and a chance to interact with real people. But Heiferman also admits to failures, including the time that he “wasted millions of dollars of AOL money trying to reinvent the keyboard.”
Failure is the secret to success. You HAVE to screw up, period. And sometimes, even when you succeed at selling your company for millions of dollars, it might be time to spend a few weeks at the checkout counter at McDonalds. You may just need to reset—to “fail” in the eyes of many—to prepare yourself to succeed again.
