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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 July, 2012

Failure on the Radio

July 28th, 2012
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Author Robby Slaughter returned to Pete the Planner’s radio show for another interview.

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Complaint Calls Can Be Useful

July 25th, 2012
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If a customer rings you up with a problem, that may just seem like the cost of business. But one small company cites a single phone call as winning them a multi-million dollar contract.

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The Terribly Useful Terrible Movie

July 19th, 2012
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You don’t have to be a huge movie fan to have suffered through a few stinkers. So why does a major government agency use an awful flick as part of their management training program?

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FedEx’s Big Gamble (No, Really)

July 15th, 2012
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Of all the rules about what you’re not supposed to do with company money, going to Vegas and gambling has to be high on the list. But that’s what saved FedEx. Seriously.

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Positive Fail, Dot Com

July 11th, 2012
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Most of the Internet businesses of the last decade are long gone. But one new website is here to celebrate failure:

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How Boring Attire Wins

July 8th, 2012
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Most people don’t want to be caught dead wearing the same outfit two days in a row. So why did superstar actor Daniel Radcliffe put on the same outfit for six months in a row?

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