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Failure: The Blog 
August 2018
- When This Executive Was Fired, He Took Charge
- Obeying The Speed Limit Has Never Been More Fun
- London Black Cabs Helped Uber Grow
- Bette Graham Created A Product To Fix Her Mistakes
- Flamin' Hot Cheetos Had An Interesting Start
July 2018
- Fear This Instead Of Failure
- Re-Releasing Songs Created Success
- A CEO's Purposeful Mistake
- The Tardy Student And The Unsolvable Problem
- Fixing Potholes Through Graffiti
June 2018
- A Surprising Mistake In The Oxford English Dictionary
- US Army Embraces Mistakes
- Blocking A Hymn
- Eddie Shore Was Truly A Tough Guy
- [Video] Elon Musk Didn't "Pivot" He Failed
May 2018
- 8 Examples of Mental Toughness Part 2
- Necessity Turned Accessory: Allen Iverson's Sleeve
- This Doctor Has Continued To Fail
- 8 Examples of Mental Toughness
- MIT Accidentally Creates New Smelting Process
April 2018
- Johnny Cash Quit Singing Lessons
- Cruise Control Came Out of Frustration
- Time Spent Gaming Pays Off In The Navy
- Rock Around The Clock Was a Commercial Failure
- Sigmund Freud Should Have Been Discouraged
March 2018
Writing Your Failure Resume
Learning from failure is an important step when becoming successful. As one proverb states, “success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.” But rebounding from a failure only comes once you accept that you have failed.
David Kelley and Tom Kelley over at FastCompany wrote an article that caught our eye. In it, they discuss owning your failures and using them to be completely honest. They point to one company, Bessemer Venture Partners, and their “Anti-Portfolio.”
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Bessmer stated the reasoning behind this was because their “long and storied history has afforded our firm an unparalleled number of opportunities to completely screw up.” And it’s not just Bessemer Venture Partners that are jumping on the Anti-Portfolio train. More and more companies are highlighting their failures to explain how they found success!
