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Billion-Dollar Lessons

by Chunka Mui, Paul B. Carroll
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Billion-Dollar Lessons
Billion-Dollar Lessons

Learn from business failures for future success.

If you've ever feared making a costly mistake in your entrepreneurial journey, "Billion-Dollar Lessons" could be a critical read for you. Authors Carroll and Mui delve deep into the stunning flameouts of numerous businesses, allowing you to arm yourself with knowledge gleaned from their costly missteps. It's a book that flips the script on success literature by highlighting the importance of failure as a learning tool.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Billion-Dollar Lessons

by Chunka Mui, Paul B. Carroll
$8.90
ISBN: 9781591842897
Authors: Chunka Mui, Paul B. Carroll
Publisher: Portfolio
Date of Publication: 2009-08-25
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: History, Business, Personal Development, Economics
Related Topics: Management, Finance, Self Help, Personal Development, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Business, Personal Development, Leadership, Finance
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This book is your chance to learn from others’ mistakes. In the 1960s, IBM CEO Tom Watson called an executive into his office after his venture lost $10 million. The man assumed he was being fired. Watson told him, “Fired? Hell, I spent $10 million educating you. I just want to be sure you learned the right lessons.” There are thousands of books about successful companies but virtually none about the lessons to be learned from those that crash and burn. Now Paul Carroll and Chunka Mui draw on research into more than 750 flameouts to reveal the seven biggest reasons for business failure.
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Learn from business failures for future success.

If you've ever feared making a costly mistake in your entrepreneurial journey, "Billion-Dollar Lessons" could be a critical read for you. Authors Carroll and Mui delve deep into the stunning flameouts of numerous businesses, allowing you to arm yourself with knowledge gleaned from their costly missteps. It's a book that flips the script on success literature by highlighting the importance of failure as a learning tool.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.