Personally I place considerable emphasis on learning from failures, but its always better to learn from the failures of others than from your own. Hence, this list. It is overwhelmingly financial scandals, but also some interesting analyses of technical failures.
Learning From Failure Public
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In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom Brady endorsed it; and TV ads …
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In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout …
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When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein
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In this business classic—now with a new Afterword in which the author draws parallels to the recent financial crisis—Roger Lowenstein …
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The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind
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There were dozens of books about Watergate, but only All the President's Men gave readers the full story, with all …
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How Not to Network a Nation by Benjamin Peters
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How, despite thirty years of effort, Soviet attempts to build a national computer network were undone by socialists who seemed …
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Ponzinomics by Robert L. Fitzpatrick
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Ponzinomics by Robert L. FitzPatrick, author of False Profits, is the first comprehensive account of how "multi-level marketing" was created …
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