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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 May, 2012

[VIDEO] Failures and Hollywood Dreams

May 26th, 2012
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Famous writer and director Aaron Sorkin recently gave the commencement address at his alma mater. Not surprisingly, he talked extensively about failure.

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Meetings and Tremendous Failures

May 21st, 2012
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We’ve all had to wait for a meeting to start, whether at the doctor’s or in our own conference room. But according to one source, the famous Marx Brothers figured out a system for ensuring that they never had to wait for a meeting. The story comes from IMDB:

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John Cusack and the Unproducable Script

May 14th, 2012
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Hollywood celebrities have to take big risks to achieve big success. John Cusack is no exception, according to a recent interview.

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The Luxury Car Built by Spite

May 4th, 2012
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High-end sports vehicles are symbols of engineering perfection and ultimate luxury. But one of the most famous brands started out of frustration.

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