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The Seven Deadly Sins of Leadership

fail92fail wrote 3 weeks ago: Here is a piece about leadership “sins” as categorized by management/leadership guru Dru … more →

Tags: leadership and strategy failures, Drucker, Failure, leadership, Management, Sin

American small businesses are on life support

mercyman53 wrote 1 month ago: In the past few weeks I have made a number of trips to various places in these United States.  I bel … more →

Tags: Mom and Pop Business, Small Business, tax-base, Unemployment, Car Dealers, congress and small businesses, fast food restaurants, Machine Shops, occupancy rates at malls

Common and important social media fail techniques1 comment

fail92fail wrote 1 month ago: The current and foreseeable “big” thing, as seen from an Internet user’s perspecti … more →

Tags: leadership and strategy failures, Failure, Plagiate, Social Media

Example: have your idea take off while saving money and getting results1 comment

fail92fail wrote 1 month ago: You have an idea – everyone has an idea – but so what? Just because you have what you co … more →

Tags: entrepreneurial failures, Business Execution, Entrepreneurship, Failure, Idea, Save Money

3 startups +1 and 3 lessons +12 comments

fail92fail wrote 2 months ago: The Entrepreneur magazine has asked three successful entrepreneurs to describe a scenario of doing t … more →

Tags: entrepreneurial failures, Egypt, Elegua, entrepreneur, Failure, lesson learned, OpenCoffee Club, Startup

Recession claims C.R. sports retailer

Dave DeWitte wrote 3 months ago: Xtreme Sports, an independent retailer that catered to young thrill seekers, will close Sunday after … more →

Tags: Cedar Rapids, Extreme Sports, recession, retail closings, xtreme sports

Why Smart People, Executives and Companies Do Dumb Things

fail92fail wrote 8 months ago: I am a big fan of Guy Kawasaki (and his blog), having recently purchased and consumed his last book … more →

Tags: leadership and strategy failures, personal failures, Business, Failure, guy kawasaki, reality check, Sydney Finkelstein, why smart companies do dumb things, "Why Smart Executives Fail"

Creating Opportunities From Failures

gailforce33 wrote 8 months ago: I recently received this and thought it was worth sharing… Creating Opportunities From Failure … more →

Tags: Gail Lynn, G Force Consulting, Opportunities, New Economy

Indian moustaches face the chop

Arani wrote 9 months ago: The Great Indian Moustache Tradition is under threat and well on its way to extinction, says Richard … more →

Tags: India, Moustaches

Seven Virtues of Failure1 comment

fail92fail wrote 9 months ago: Another excellent article (below) about virtues of business/entrepreneurial failure. I believe that … more →

Tags: entrepreneurial failures, leadership and strategy failures, Charity, Chastity, Diligence, Envy, Failure, gluttony, greed

The Ten Commandments for Business Failure of Mr. Coke2 comments

fail92fail wrote 10 months ago: There are not many books, which have a foreword by Warren Buffet and universal acclaim from likes of … more →

Tags: Coca-Cola, donald keough, Failure, Mr. Coke, Teh Coca-Cola Company, The Ten Commandments for Business Failure, warren buffet

Playboy pulls out slowly

Arani wrote 10 months ago: It has started shutting down offices across America, cancelled its (in)famous Super Bowl party and i … more →

Tags: Playboy, Women

Failure

myofficebuzz wrote 10 months ago: There are all kinds of heroic stories about people like Hershey and Lincoln who failed repeatedly in … more →

Tags: Dealing with Failure, Communication at work, Annoying Coworkers, hershey, Lincoln, edison

Reconsidering Crafts and how that figures into the awfulness that brought about the bailouts

ellisonbaypottery wrote 11 months ago: Doing meaningful work well is what we are supposed to do.  But what about doing any work well, just … more →

Tags: farming, Meaningful Work, Craft, Art, Business, Waitress, server, Farmers, agbusiness

Auto Industry: 12-09-08 Bailout auto suppliers?

alaskakid wrote 11 months ago: Below are a few paragraphs. If a bailout is good for GM, why isn’t a bailout good for GM … more →

Tags: financial crisis, financial economics, auto bailout, bankruptcy, Craig Fitzgerald, Plante Moran, Supplier Bailout

How (and how not) Iacocca saved Chrysler2 comments

fail92fail wrote 12 months ago: The period between 1968 and 1973 was actually a very good one for the American auto sector. Yet diff … more →

Tags: leadership and strategy failures, bankruptcy, Big Three, car industry, Chrysler, Chrysler Corporation Loan Guarantee Act of 1979, corporate myths, Failure, John Riccardo

Paulson mistakes and chapter 11

fail92fail wrote 1 year ago: A brief but illuminating summary of recent blunders of Henry Paulson, an expert on the Great Depress … more →

Tags: Economic failures, leadership and strategy failures, Failure, bankruptcy, Worldcom, Henry Paulson, Merrill Lynch, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac

What's an Extra Thee or Four Million between Friends

malflic wrote 1 year ago: So the Phone rings. The world is crap, banks are sinking, car makers are arrogantly asking for bailo … more →

Tags: economic downturn, bankruptcy, recession

On Louis Gerstner and IBM1 comment

fail92fail wrote 1 year ago: A bit of historical perspective is here. Year 1993, a once-mighty behemoth IBM, a former pacesetter … more →

Tags: leadership and strategy failures, Failure, IBM, bankruptcy, luois gerstner, turnaround, thomas j watson jr, Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?


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