Download or read book A Complete and Utter Failure written by Neil Steinberg and published by Main Street Books. This book was released on 1995-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steinberg joyfully explores the many fascinating facets of failure, from pointless failure (a brief history of several very dumb attempts to climb Mount Everest) to product failure (Reddi-Bacon, smokeless cigarettes, and Baby Jesus dolls) to institutionalized failure (the National Spelling Bee, in which 8,999,999 children out of 9,000,000 fail in an excruciatingly public and humiliating fashion).
Download or read book How to Be a Complete and Utter Failure in Life Work Everything written by Steve McDermott and published by FT Press. This book was released on 2008-01-10 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Really want to know how to fail? Consistently? Massively? Irrevocably? Steve McDermott’s spent years studying the world’s greatest failures: those extraordinary individuals who’ve spectacularly underachieved in every walk of life. They all use the exact same skills and strategies--and you can learn them, too. (Maybe you know some already!) In this quick, incredibly practical guide to failure, McDermott brings together dozens of state-of-the-art techniques guaranteed to help you crash, burn, and disappoint everyone in your life. In just minutes, discover how to fail at... • Leadership • Relationships • Personal growth • Achieving happiness • Teamwork • Planning • Goal-setting • Careers • Financial security • First impressions • And so much more! DANGER: Do NOT attempt to reverse these techniques. If performed in the opposite fashion, they may cause spectacular success. The publisher and author will not be held responsible for wealth, happiness, or career achievements resulting from the use of these skills and strategies in reverse.
Download or read book How to be a Complete and Utter Failure in Life Work and Everything written by Steve McDermott and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How to Be a Complete Utter Failure live written by Steve McDermott and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2003-09-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How to Be a Complete and Utter Failure in Life Work Everything written by Steve McDermott and published by FT Press. This book was released on 2008-01-10 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Really want to know how to fail? Consistently? Massively? Irrevocably? Steve McDermott’s spent years studying the world’s greatest failures: those extraordinary individuals who’ve spectacularly underachieved in every walk of life. They all use the exact same skills and strategies--and you can learn them, too. (Maybe you know some already!) In this quick, incredibly practical guide to failure, McDermott brings together dozens of state-of-the-art techniques guaranteed to help you crash, burn, and disappoint everyone in your life. In just minutes, discover how to fail at... • Leadership • Relationships • Personal growth • Achieving happiness • Teamwork • Planning • Goal-setting • Careers • Financial security • First impressions • And so much more! DANGER: Do NOT attempt to reverse these techniques. If performed in the opposite fashion, they may cause spectacular success. The publisher and author will not be held responsible for wealth, happiness, or career achievements resulting from the use of these skills and strategies in reverse.
Download or read book How to Be a Complete and Utter Failure in Life Work and Everything written by Steve McDermott and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author McDermott is back with even more stories of extraordinary individuals who have underachieved in every walk of life. By doing the exact opposite of everything the author relates, readers might be complete successes.
Download or read book Complete Utter Failure written by Neil Steinberg and published by Pavilion Books, Limited. This book was released on 1994 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How to Be a Complete Utter Failure in Life Work and Everything written by Steve McDermott and published by . This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author McDermott is back with even more stories of extraordinary individuals who have underachieved in every walk of life. By doing the exact opposite of everything the author relates, readers might be complete successes.
Download or read book How to be a Complete and Utter Failure in Life Business and Everything written by Steve McDermott and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How to Be a Complete and Utter Failure in Life Business and Everything written by Steve McDermott and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2004-12-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Really want to know how to fail? Consistently? Massively? Irrevocably? Steve McDermott's your man. For years, he's been studying failure in action: those extraordinary individuals who've massively, spectacularly underachieved in every walk of life. Guess what: they all share the exact same strategies for failure: strategies they use each and every day to become total washouts. Now, McDermott's brought all those skills together in the quickest, most concise, most complete guide to failure ever written. You name it, this book will help you flop at it: leadership, communication, teamwork, customer service, and a whole lot more. You'll even learn how to make an absolutely horrid first impression. This book was an international bestseller (so that's why there's so much failure and incompetence everywhere you look ) Now, in this version updated for US audiences, McDermott's back with even more techniques, new stories, actions not to take, and exercises not to try. You'll find dozens of classic techniques guaranteed to help you fail, plus five brand new ways to crash, burn, and disappoint everyone in your life. (Hey It just occurred to us... you could read this book and do the exact opposite of everything Steve McDermott tells you to do. If you did that, you'd be a complete and utter success, wouldn't you? Umm... nahhh, just a thought... better forget we mentioned it.)
Download or read book When Genius Failed written by Roger Lowenstein and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2001-10-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A riveting account that reaches beyond the market landscape to say something universal about risk and triumph, about hubris and failure.”—The New York Times NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BUSINESSWEEK In this business classic—now with a new Afterword in which the author draws parallels to the recent financial crisis—Roger Lowenstein captures the gripping roller-coaster ride of Long-Term Capital Management. Drawing on confidential internal memos and interviews with dozens of key players, Lowenstein explains not just how the fund made and lost its money but also how the personalities of Long-Term’s partners, the arrogance of their mathematical certainties, and the culture of Wall Street itself contributed to both their rise and their fall. When it was founded in 1993, Long-Term was hailed as the most impressive hedge fund in history. But after four years in which the firm dazzled Wall Street as a $100 billion moneymaking juggernaut, it suddenly suffered catastrophic losses that jeopardized not only the biggest banks on Wall Street but the stability of the financial system itself. The dramatic story of Long-Term’s fall is now a chilling harbinger of the crisis that would strike all of Wall Street, from Lehman Brothers to AIG, a decade later. In his new Afterword, Lowenstein shows that LTCM’s implosion should be seen not as a one-off drama but as a template for market meltdowns in an age of instability—and as a wake-up call that Wall Street and government alike tragically ignored. Praise for When Genius Failed “[Roger] Lowenstein has written a squalid and fascinating tale of world-class greed and, above all, hubris.”—BusinessWeek “Compelling . . . The fund was long cloaked in secrecy, making the story of its rise . . . and its ultimate destruction that much more fascinating.”—The Washington Post “Story-telling journalism at its best.”—The Economist
Download or read book Failure written by Stuart Firestein and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his sequel to Ignorance (Oxford University Press, 2012), Stuart Firestein shows us that the scientific enterprise is riddled with mistakes and errors - and that this is a good thing! Failure: Why Science Is So Successful delves into the origins of scientific research as a process that relies upon trial and error, one which inevitably results in a hefty dose of failure.
Download or read book The Ten Year War written by Jonathan Cohn and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Cohn's The Ten Year War is the definitive account of the battle over Obamacare, based on interviews with sources who were in the room, from one of the nation's foremost healthcare journalists. The Affordable Care Act, better known as “Obamacare,” was the most sweeping and consequential piece of legislation of the last half century. It has touched nearly every American in one way or another, for better or worse, and become the defining political fight of our time. In The Ten Year War, veteran journalist Jonathan Cohn offers the compelling, authoritative history of how the law came to be, why it looks like it does, and what it’s meant for average Americans. Drawn from hundreds of hours of interviews, plus private diaries, emails and memos, The Ten Year War takes readers to Capitol Hill and to town hall meetings, inside the West Wing and, eventually, into Trump Tower, as the nation's most powerful leaders try to reconcile pragmatism and idealism, self-interest and the public good, and ultimately two very different visions for what the country should look like. At the heart of the book is the decades-old argument over what’s wrong with American health care and how to fix it. But the battle over healthcare was always about more than policy. The Ten Year War offers a deeper examination of how our governing institutions, the media and the two parties have evolved, and the dysfunction those changes have left in their wake.
Download or read book Failure Is an Option written by H. Jon Benjamin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Writing this funny requires immense talent.” —AV Club H. Jon Benjamin—the lead voice behind Archer and Bob's Burgers—helps us all feel a little better about our own failures by sharing his own in a hilarious memoir-ish chronicle of failure. Most people would consider H. Jon Benjamin a comedy show business success. But he'd like to remind everyone that as great as success can be, failure is also an option. And maybe the best option. In this book, he tells stories from his own life, from his early days ("wherein I'm unable to deliver a sizzling fajita") to his romantic life ("how I failed to quantify a threesome") to family ("wherein a trip to P.F. Chang's fractures a family") to career ("how I failed at launching a kid's show"). As Jon himself says, breaking down one's natural ability to succeed is not an easy task, but also not an insurmountable one. Society as we know it is, sadly, failure averse. But more acceptance of failure, as Jon sees it, will go a long way to making this world a different place . . . a kinder, gentler place, where gardens are overgrown and most people stay home with their pets. A vision of failure, but also a vision of freedom. With stories, examples of artistic and literary failure, and a powerful can't-do attitude, Failure Is an Option is the book the world doesn't need right now but will get regardless.
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Download or read book The Power of Failure written by Charles C. Manz and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2002-04-09 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking of oneself as self-employed - and the boss of one's life and work - is the key to personal and professional development, says Cliff Hakim. He shows how to use his pioneering Worklife Creed as a basis for a new, satisfying philosophy of work and life. Providing a clear roadmap for finding purpose and passion in work, this revised edition includes a refined Worklife Creed, greater emphasis on taking full responsibility for one's worklife and understanding and expressing one's own uniqueness, and a Who's the Boss? section that acts as a practical and potent take-anywhere toolbox.
Download or read book How to Be a Complete and Utter Failure in Life Work and Everything Steve McDermott written by Steve McDermott and published by . This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the ultimate un-improvement guide, offering 39 and a half steps to being a failure. The text is delivered in a how not to way using the power of reverse psychology to make its point while making you laugh.
