Download or read book Forbes Best Business Mistakes written by Bob Sellers and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-06-17 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's top business leaders reveal how to make even the biggest mistakes work for you Forbes Best Business Mistakes reveals practical lessons from some of today's most successful business leaders to show you how to turn a bad business situation into a success. Based on exclusive sit-down interviews with some of today's most successful men and women, author Bob Sellers shares their stories to provide valuable insights and lessons that can help you can learn from their mistakes. Those profiled in Forbes Best Business Mistakes include the likes of Wall Street guru Peter Lynch, larger-than-life media personalities Jim Cramer and Suze Orman, legendary CEO Jack Welch, and newcomer Jason Kilar, CEO of Hulu, who is poised to change the movie and TV industry landscape as we know it forever. Other names include PIMCO's Bill Gross and Mohamed El-Erian and Home Depot Founder Arthur Blank. Reveal how top business and financial leaders turned their biggest mistakes into success stories Based on exclusive interviews with some of today's most successful professionals, from Jason Kilar of Hulu to Suze Orman Contains practical lessons on how you can turn a bad business situation around As Malcolm Forbes put it, "Failure is success if we learn from it." Forbes Best Business Mistakes shares the missteps of others so you can learn from them, be inspired by them, and succeed where you may not have seen opportunity before.
Download or read book The 10 Biggest Business Mistakes written by Patrick Burke and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although experience is the best teacher, it's also the most costly. Learning business lessons the hard way, through your own mistakes, often results in significant downturns or even failure. Business success doesn't require a fabulous new product or service (doesn't hurt, though) but does require avoiding the big mistakes. I made most of these big mistakes myself and barely lived to tell about it. So please do as I say and not as I did.Read on to learn business lessons the easy way and achieve success by avoiding the dreaded and expensive ten big mistakes.
Download or read book The Book of Mistakes written by Skip Prichard and published by Center Street. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered why some people seem to catch all the breaks and win over and over again? What do the super successful know? What is standing between you and your wildest dreams? The Book of Mistakes will take you on an inspiring journey, following an ancient manuscript with powerful lessons that will transform your life. You'll meet David, a young man who with each passing day is more disheartened and stressed. Despite a decent job, apartment, and friends, he just feels hollow . . . until one day he meets a mysterious young woman and everything starts to change. In this self-help tale wrapped in fiction, you'll learn the nine mistakes that prevent many from achieving their goals. You'll learn how to overcome these hurdles and reinvent your life. This success parable is packed with wisdom that will help you discover and follow your personal purpose, push beyond your perceived capabilities, and achieve more than you ever dreamed possible. You'll find yourself returning again and again to a deceptively simple story that teaches actionable insights and enduring truths.
Download or read book The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make written by Hans Finzel and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although leadership is the hot topic on conference agendas and book tours, most people who find themselves in positions of leadership have little or no training for the role. They simply continue to make the same old mistakes. With additional and newly updated material, this leadership classic reveals the most common errors that leaders consistently make-regardless of training or age-and the way to stop these bad habits from undermining their positive talents and accomplishments. Whether you are leading a company, a ministry, a Girl Scout troop, or your family, The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make is a must-read for anyone who wants to lead others effectively. "If you're like me, you've grown weary of the published cookie-cutter approaches on how to lead effectively. And so has Hans Finzel. He drills to the core of the current issues on effective leadership." -Charles R. Swindoll, author and president of Dallas Theological Seminary "This is one of the most practical books on leadership I have in my own library. If you are serious about becoming a better leader, you will want to read this book." -John C. Maxwell, author, speaker, and founder of the INJOY Group
Download or read book 101 Biggest Mistakes Managers Make and How to Avoid Them written by Mary Albright and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supervisory training teaches you about a lot of things you should do, such as how to prepare a performance appraisal, conduct a meeting, divide up work, or manage your time. What it usually leaves out are all the things you shouldn’t do—the subtle and not-so-subtle mistakes in managing people that could haunt you the rest of your career. Now there’s a comprehensive, instant-answer guide to avoiding over 100 of the most common mistakes made by managers that no business course ever told you about. This valuable career-enhancing guide details where the pitfalls lie, so you can avoid them more easily, as well as how to recover from a mistake quickly and prevent it from happening again. You’ll discover how to avoid such management blunders as: • Not having clear objectives • Delegating the wrong jobs • Being defensive to criticism • Ignoring office politics • Taking on risky projects with little payoff • Solving performance problems with new technology • Getting caught up in the rumor mill • Letting other managers steal away your staff • And much more! Armed with this guide, you don’t have to complete an entire managerial career realizing your mistakes only after you had to suffer the consequences. You’ll know exactly what to do and say in virtually any delicate business situation . . . and boost your success in the process.
Download or read book Big Mistakes written by Michael Batnick and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Must-Read for Any Investor Looking to Maximize Their Chances of Success Big Mistakes: The Best Investors and Their Worst Investments explores the ways in which the biggest names have failed, and reveals the lessons learned that shaped more successful strategies going forward. Investing can be a rollercoaster of highs and lows, and the investors detailed here show just how low it can go; stories from Warren Buffet, Bill Ackman, Chris Sacca, Jack Bogle, Mark Twain, John Maynard Keynes, and many more illustrate the simple but overlooked concept that investing is really hard, whether you're managing a few thousand dollars or a few billion, failures and losses are part of the game. Much more than just anecdotal diversion, these stories set the basis for the book's critical focus: learning from mistakes. These investors all recovered from their missteps, and moved forward armed with a wealth of knowledge than can only come from experience. Lessons learned through failure carry a weight that no textbook can convey, and in the case of these legendary investors, informed a set of skills and strategy that propelled them to the top. Research-heavy and grounded in realism, this book is a must-read for any investor looking to maximize their chances of success. Learn the most common ways even successful investors fail Learn from the mistakes of the greats to avoid losing ground Anticipate challenges and obstacles, and develop an advance plan Exercise caution when warranted, and only take the smart risks While learning from your mistakes is always a valuable experience, learning from the mistakes of others gives you the benefit of wisdom without the consequences of experience. Big Mistakes: The Best Investors and Their Worst Investments provides an incomparable, invaluable resource for investors of all stripes.
Download or read book The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make written by Hans Finzel and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2000 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Top-flight leaders aren't born. They learn by bad example. Poor leadership habits spawn new generations of poor leaders. Or they create enough discomfort that the leader figures out how to do it right. That has been the experience of author Hans Finzel and many others. In this leadership classic Hans describes the ten most common leadership faux pas: and • The top-down attitude and • Dirty delegation and • Putting paperwork before peoplework and • Communication chaos and • The absence of affirmation and • Missing the culture clues and • No room for mavericks and • Success without successors and • Dictatorship in decision-making and • Failure to focus on the future "Solid concepts. Great quotes. Good stories. Hans Finzel has combined sophisticated leadership theory with practical principles to teach us how to lead. Read this book today and become a better leader tomorrow." Leith Anderson, Pastor, Wooddale Church, Eden Prairie, Minnesota "This is one of the most practical books on leadership I have in my own library. If you are serious about becoming a better leader, you will want to read this book." John C. Maxwell, Author, Speaker, and Founder The INJOY Group "Hans' book is a leader's mirror. . . you'll see yourself in previously unrevealed ways and learn what it takes to 'get presentable' for effective leadership for His glory." Joseph M. Stowell, President, Moody Bible Institute
Download or read book Mistakes I Made at Work written by Jessica Bacal and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High-achieving women share their worst mistakes at work—and how learning from them paved the way to success. Named by Fast Company as a "Top 10 Book You Need to Read This Year" In Mistakes I Made at Work, a Publishers Weekly Top 10 Business Book for Spring 2014, Jessica Bacal interviews twenty-five successful women about their toughest on-the-job moments. These innovators across a variety of fields – from the arts to finance to tech – reveal that they’re more thoughtful, purposeful and assertive as leaders because they learned from their mistakes, not because they never made any. Interviewees include: Cheryl Strayed, bestselling author of Wild Anna Holmes, founding editor of Jezebel.com Kim Gordon, founding member of the band Sonic Youth Joanna Barsch, Director Emeritus of McKinsey & Company Carol Dweck, Stanford psychology professor Ruth Ozeki, New York Times bestselling author of Tale for the Time Being And many more For readers of Lean In and #Girlboss, Mistakes I Made for Work is ideal for millenials just starting their careers, for women seeking to advance at work, or for anyone grappling with issues of perfectionism, and features fascinating and surprising anecdotes, as well as tips for readers.
Download or read book The 10 Biggest Legal Mistakes Women Can Avoid written by Marilyn Barrett and published by Capital Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A savvy woman lawyer tells women how to protect themselves from ten key legal mistakes
Download or read book Brand Failures written by Matt Haig and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's not just smaller, lesser-known companies that have launched dud brands. On the contrary, most of the world's global giants have launched new products that have flopped - spectacularly and at great cost. Haig organizes these 100 ""failures"" into ten types which include classic failures (e.g., New Coke), idea failures (e.g., R.J.Reynolds' smokeless cigarettes), extension failures (e.g. Harley Davidson perfume), culture failures (e.g., Kellogs in India), and technology failures (e.g., Pets.com).
Download or read book The 10 Biggest Mistakes Executives Make written by Don H. Scott and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The World s Greatest Mistakes written by Nigel Blundell and published by Bounty Books. This book was released on 1980 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Why Companies Fail written by Mark Ingebretsen and published by Crown. This book was released on 2003 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of the global bull market a few years ago, business giant Kmart stumbled, going from one of the most admired companies to one of the largest bankruptcies in history. The same fate befell several seemingly impenetrable corporation, such as Enron, WorldCom, Polaroid, and others. Were these fantastic failures caused by a fickle stock market and a turbulent economy? Did they fall victim to the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s? Not according to business journalist Mark Ingebretsen in Why Companies Fail. As you'll discover in this groundbreaking book, all of these companies exhibited one or more of the ten characteristics of a doomed company--characteristics that have been shared by failed companies for decades. Kmart, Enron, WorldCom, and other corporations might have been saved if their executives had recognized sooner that their companies were exhibiting one or more of these characteristics. Ingebretsen, with the help of some of the world's most noted business management experts from the Turnaround Management Association, describes in startling detail each of the ten big reasons companies fail, including: - Letting stock price dictate strategy - Ignoring customers - Fighting wars of attrition - Innovating too much or too little - And more Inside these pages, you'll discover practical methods for identifying these fatal characteristics in your own organization and preventing them from leading to failure. No matter what the size of your company, the lessons in Why Companies Fail could be the difference between long-lasting success and sudden flameout. And before any company can go from good to great, it's got to be on the right track in the first place.This valuable guide will show you how.
Download or read book The 10 Mistakes Businesses Make written by Roger Mendelson and published by New Holland Publishers (AU). This book was released on 2009 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the founder and director of the largest privately owned debt recovery agency in Australia, comes an informative and practical business book outlining the 10 mistakes businesses make and how to avoid them. This book is relevant at a time when we are seeing the downside of excessive lending, as interest rates fluctuate and the local and global economy is unstable. Chapters include the mistakes to avoid such as not developing leadership skills in your people; not setting goals; not focusing on the customer, and many more.
Download or read book Expensive Mistakes when Buying Selling Companies written by Richard G. Stieglitz and published by Acuity Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selling or buying a business can be a lucrative but risky transaction it's all too easy to sell yourself short or to overpay as the buyer. If you want to avoid the costly mistakes that many business owners make in M&A transactions, this book is for you. It provides valuable guidance on how to prepare for and negotiate your deal, and how to leave the bargaining table with more money in your pocket!
Download or read book The 10 Biggest Sales Marketing Mistakes Everyone is Making and How to Avoid Them written by Tom Hopkins and published by Made For Success Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies show that about 90% of all small businesses fold in five years. All too often, business owners focus too heavily on products, facilities, and everything but the sales and marketing process. Yet, your ability to advertise, generate leads and close a high ratio of those leads is the engine that drives growth. Ten thousand companies rely on Tom Hopkins to teach them how to avoid sales and marketing mistakes and how to explode profits and create exponential growth. Now you can get in on the action too! In Tom’s eBook, titled 10 Biggest Sales and Marketing Mistakes, you can forgo years of trial and error, and chart your way towards meteoric success starting immediately!
Download or read book Landing on Your Feet written by Michael G. Kerrison and published by Broadview PressInc. This book was released on 2003 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about mistakes-mistakes in business and in life-and how their lessons can transform your business and your life into lasting success. Today's business culture glorifies success and shuns failure. (Look at the book next to this one. See what I mean?) But real learning often comes from our mistakes. In Landing On Your Feet, Mike Kerrison tells the truth about what it really takes to start and build a business. This is a rags-to-riches story. No, he's not Bill Gates, but all three of his technology companies reached multimillion-dollar levels, earned national recognition, and created several millionaires. But not without making many mistakes along the way. Kerrison takes you through his mistakes, meltdowns, and remarkable recoveries, then explains what he learned and how to transform mistakes into lasting success, without burying you under a deluge of en vogue business theory. Reading like a novel and paved with humor, Kerrison gives us the inside story - twenty-five years of practical, useable business wisdom. So if you're looking to start a business, or if you already have one and can't push it to the next level, or if you're a blue-chip executive struggling to restore the trust and vitality that once made your company great, or if you're just making too many mistakes, this book is for you. Book jacket.
