Forbes Best Business Mistakes: How Today's Top Business Leaders Turned Missteps into Success
Bob Sellers
Language: English
Pages: 209
ISBN: 0470598778
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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.
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“Customer in Training,” or the day care center where you can put the kids while you’re shopping (parents probably go there for that even when the fridge is full!). There’s the pharmacy, the tableware section, and the numerous checkouts that are probably pretty busy because you won’t be the only one in a store that is so popular that some of its biggest customers border on the fanatical. There’s an energy that brings the place alive. When you walk into a Wegmans, you know the difference between
crash—things were getting tougher and I was advised by many to take the safe route. So I took the deal. But I just didn’t like the place anymore—they hadn’t given me a full vote of confidence. It wasn’t about the money. I always expected to be one of those happy employees of the month types! All I wanted was acknowledgment. So I went through a year, got paid, and—wasn’t promoted again! At that point I was heartbroken to work for a place that wasn’t acknowledging me. So I ended up quitting.
2006, she was named to the Time 100, Time magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people. In 2008, she was named Media Person of the Year by I Want Media, and wrote the Introduction to The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging. Originally from Greece, she moved to England when she was 16 and graduated from Cambridge University with an MA in economics. At 21, she became president of the famed debating society, the Cambridge Union. Chapter 28 HERB GREENBERG Columnist at
like Leamout and Hauspie, Media Vision and AremiSoft. (Herb: “One of the biggest frauds you’ve never heard of.”) And what does he look for? It’s more of an art than a science. “As a journalist, remember—my info always started with tips or ideas from Wall Street, employees of companies, or others,” he says, adding:There are so many different scenarios that make for the perfect story or situation. Aggressive accounting is always a red flag; obsession with a stock price; bonuses based on
the variety of questions? When I started out I was doing real estate deals and I bought and sold foreclosures. So I knew foreclosures inside and out. And then I had been a foreclosure. [Laughs.] And in bankruptcy, it was the same thing. I had worked the bankruptcy courts, buying deals out of there, so I knew the law and the way the stuff worked in the courts. That’s the way I made my money. And I was buying deals. Anywhere I could find a deal I’d scratch it up. So I knew how the banks thought; I