The Power Of Failure

Author : Fran Tarkenton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1621574369
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power of Failure written by Fran Tarkenton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So says Hall of Fame quarterback and hugely successful serial entrepreneur Fran Tarkenton. Don’t get him wrong—there’s no one more competitive or keener on winning than Fran. But in his inspiring and insightful new book, The Power of Failure, Tarkenton illustrates with hard, real-life examples why the most successful entrepreneurs are those with the courage, the resilience, the intelligence, and the competitive spirit to fail often, fail faster, and fail better—to achieve ultimate success. Candid, concise, quotable, and realistic, Fran Tarkenton is the best possible guide to finding success through the power of failure.

Author : Charles C. Manz
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1605093890
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : William D. Cohan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593084160
Total Pages : 817 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power Failure written by William D. Cohan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The New Yorker Best Books of 2022 • Financial Times Best Books of 2022 • The Economist Best Books of 2022 The dramatic rise—and unimaginable fall—of America's most iconic corporation by New York Times bestselling author and pre-eminent financial journalist William D. Cohan No company embodied American ingenuity, innovation, and industrial power more spectacularly and more consistently than the General Electric Company. GE once developed and manufactured many of the inventions we take for granted today, nearly everything from the lightbulb to the jet engine. GE also built a cult of financial and leadership success envied across the globe and became the world’s most valuable and most admired company. But even at the height of its prestige and influence, cracks were forming in its formidable foundation. In a masterful re-appraisal of a company that once claimed to “bring good things to life,” pre-eminent financial journalist William D. Cohan argues that the incredible story of GE’s rise and fall is not only a paragon, but also a prism through which we can better understand American capitalism. Beginning with its founding, innovations, and exponential growth through acquisitions and mergers, Cohan plumbs the depths of GE's storied management culture, its pioneering doctrine of shareholder value, and its seemingly hidden blind spots, to reveal that GE wasn't immune from the hubris and avoidable mistakes suffered by many other corporations. In Power Failure, Cohan punctures the myth of GE, exploring in a rich narrative how a once-great company wound up broken and in tatters—a cautionary tale for the ages.

Author : Mimi Swartz
Publisher : Currency
ISBN 13 : 076791368X
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power Failure written by Mimi Swartz and published by Currency. This book was released on 2004-03-09 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “They’re still trying to hide the weenie,” thought Sherron Watkins as she read a newspaper clipping about Enron two weeks before Christmas, 2001. . . It quoted [CFO] Jeff McMahon addressing the company’s creditors and cautioning them against a rash judgment. “Don’t assume that there is a smoking gun.” Sherron knew Enron well enough to know that the company was in extreme spin mode… Power Failure is the electrifying behind-the-scenes story of the collapse of Enron, the high-flying gas and energy company touted as the poster child of the New Economy that, in its hubris, had aspired to be “The World’s Leading Company,” and had briefly been the seventh largest corporation in America. Written by prizewinning journalist Mimi Swartz, and substantially based on the never-before-published revelations of former Enron vice-president Sherron Watkins, as well as hundreds of other interviews, Power Failure shows the human face beyond the greed, arrogance, and raw ambition that fueled the company’s meteoric rise in the late 1990s. At the dawn of the new century, Ken Lay’s and Jeff Skilling's faces graced the covers of business magazines, and Enron’s money oiled the political machinery behind George W. Bush’s election campaign. But as Wall Street analysts sang Enron’s praises, and its stock spiraled dizzyingly into the stratosphere, the company’s leaders were madly scrambling to manufacture illusory profits, hide its ballooning debt, and bully Wall Street into buying its fictional accounting and off-balance-sheet investment vehicles. The story of Enron’s fall is a morality tale writ large, performed on a stage with an unforgettable array of props and side plots, from parking lots overflowing with Boxsters and BMWs to hot-house office affairs and executive tantrums. Among the cast of characters Mimi Swartz and Sherron Watkins observe with shrewd Texas eyes and an insider’s perspective are: CEO Ken Lay, Enron’s “outside face,” who was more interested in playing diplomat and paving the road to a political career than in managing Enron’s high-testosterone, anything-goes culture; Jeff Skilling, the mastermind behind Enron’s mercenary trading culture, who transformed himself from a nerdy executive into the personification of millennial cool; Rebecca Mark, the savvy and seductive head of Enron’s international division, who was Skilling’s sole rival to take over the company; and Andy Fastow, whose childish pranks early in his career gave way to something far more destructive. Desperate to be a player in Enron’s deal-making, trader-oriented culture, Fastow transformed Enron’s finance department into a “profit center,” creating a honeycomb of financial entities to bolster Enron’s “profits,” while diverting tens of millions of dollars into his own pockets An unprecedented chronicle of Enron’s shocking collapse, Power Failure should take its place alongside the classics of previous decades – Barbarians at the Gate and Liar’s Poker – as one of the cautionary tales of our times.

Author : Ralph Heath
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN 13 : 1601638868
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Celebrating Failure written by Ralph Heath and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating Failure is the definitive how-to manual for leaders seeking to embrace the power of failure as a learning tool to improve their organizations and achieve ever-greater goals. The business world (and, lately, the political arena) is convinced that the number one topic is change. Heath posits that it might well be failure, because if you do it right, failure can become a launching pad for change.Heath contends that "positive failures" are not only necessary steps on the path to success, but encourage greater freedom to take risks in pursuit of one's life goals. This counter-intuitive but powerful title includes:•Engaging stories of real-life business and personal failure experiences.•Practical steps to apply each chapter's "lessons" and change your approach to risk-taking and failure.•Positive, effective ways to eliminate the "fear of failure" that can hold you back in today's competitive, fast-changing world.Heath's insightful stories lay out his own failures and reveal his human side as a son, father, athlete, and business leader.

Author : Charles C. Manz
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1609943740
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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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 2002-05-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author and leadership expert offers inspiration and practical advice on finding the opportunities within life’s obstacles. “Failure” is one of the most dreaded words in the English language. The very idea of failing causes many of us to simply pack up and retreat without even trying. Yet it is through seeming failure that most of life's greatest successes are achieved. In The Power of Failure, Charles Manz provides simple yet profound ways to turn what appear to be failures into the essential steppingstones of achievement. The Power of Failure offers both inspiration and advice on how failure can provide us with the foundation for long-term success. Along with real-life stories and examples, it contains practical prescriptions for meeting some of life's most common setbacks. These lessons help us take advantage of the opportunities hidden within life’s daily challenges, and show us how we can fail to succeed.

Author : John Steven Newman
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787542017
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harnessing the Power of Failure written by John Steven Newman and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the authors employ the SFCS approach to explore a vast array of failure events in multiple sectors of transportation, industry, aerospace, construction, and critical infrastructure.

Author : Albert Borgmann
Publisher : Brazos Press
ISBN 13 : 1587430584
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power Failure written by Albert Borgmann and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A call to redeem and restrain technology through everyday Christian practices and sacraments such as communal celebrations, shared meals, and daily Scripture reading.

Author : Jeremy Bloom
Publisher : Entrepreneur Press
ISBN 13 : 1613083076
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fueled By Failure written by Jeremy Bloom and published by Entrepreneur Press. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fueled by Failure: Dare to Fail. Dare to Succeed. Olympian and former NFL player now thriving as a CEO and Philanthropist, Jeremy Bloom pulls at the common thread that unites him with all of us: the defeats we encounter on our journeys to reach our goals. Sharing his hard-earned insights, advice, and practices including lessons from respected coaches, phenomenal athletes, and highly successful business leaders, Bloom coaches you in tackling defeats—big and small—and using them to drive, not derail, your success. Bloom covers: How to rebound and reprogram after defeat How to utilize the lessons from failures Which motivators evoke winning results Tactics for managing expectations for yourself and/or your team How to create a badass business culture Leaving a legacy

Author : Vasu Chadha
Publisher : Orangebooks Publication
ISBN 13 : 9788194815136
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power Of Being A Failure written by Vasu Chadha and published by Orangebooks Publication. This book was released on 2020-11-19 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 Book To Learn About The Power Of Your Failures. It Is Better To Fail Trying To Fly Than To Sit In The Nest And Die.