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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
Amazon Embraces Failure
Doug Gurr, Amazon’s UK country manager, spoke recently about the practices they have adopted to become so hugely successful. But Amazon wasn’t always so fortunate. In fact, they have built their empire on their failures.
Amazon founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos, has talked quite enthusiastically about failing. These sentiments are something that Doug Gurr fully embraces as well.
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“Innovation and failure go hand in hand, we make a lot of mistakes and we fail a lot. We don’t believe you can separate failure from innovation.”
Gurr went on to admit that, in the beginning, Amazon wasn’t bursting at the seams with customers.
“As Jeff has said publicly, we think Amazon auctions had seven customers, if he included himself, his siblings and his parents.”
He went on to discuss their tactics as a company, ranging from setting impossible goals, letting creativity flow, and even allowing hackers under their roof for their hackathons. The work that everyone does is truly rewarding. They have truly found a way to succeed where others have only failed!
