What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Ye ars
by Paul B. Carroll
appears in Management, Business, and History.
?This book is your chance to learn from others? mistakes.? Entrepreneur 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 thou...
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“A blunt, conversational tour through the worst parts of building a company. Horowitz shares personal stories from his own startup failures and recoveries, offering practical wisdom on layoffs, pivots, CEO loneliness, and managing when times are bad. The value is in the honest, experience-based insight you won't get from business school. The limitation is its narrow focus on venture-backed tech startups—if you're not in that world, some advice may feel irrelevant. Reads like a wise mentor telling you what nobody else will.”
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