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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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[VIDEO] Failing to Success / Harvard Business Review

June 29th, 2012 - Leave a comment »

Trader Joe’s president Doug Rauch describes his company as one that “failed its way to success.” In a one minute video, he shares insight on why mistakes may be the most important of all business traits.

The clip is available from Harvard Business Review and is embedded via YouTube below:

Failure is the secret to success. Check out the book to learn from the wisdom of more business professionals, actors, musicians, world-class experts and more.

Thanks to reader Scott Kurland for providing this link.

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