HOW TO BECOME A TOTAL FAILURE

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The Book is Being Reviewed by John Wilkes of Examiner.com

April 18th, 2009 · No Comments

John Wilkes, literary writer for Examiner.com here in Salt Lake City, UT is currently reviewing our book, How To Become A Total Failure: The Ten Rules of Highly Unsuccessful People. When the review is out, we’ll put a link here, but John also posted a message about the book on his personal blog at the Mister […]

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AIG is Too Big to Fail?

March 4th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Huh? I don’t get it. Maybe Foxbusiness can clarify it for us:
“The company (AIG) continues to face significant challenges, driven by the rapid deterioration in certain financial markets in the last two months of the year and continued turbulence in the markets generally,” the Treasury Department said in its press release announcing the plan. “The […]

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Are We Setting President-Elect Obama Up for Failure?

November 12th, 2008 · No Comments

We often hear in business discussions this idea of setting a person up for failure. I once had a new boss who wanted to fire me because he wanted to bring in his own person to run the Asia-Pacific division. We were driving in a taxi in Tokyo and he says that he wants me […]

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The Nonsense At Work Book

February 29th, 2008 · No Comments

                                             
We recently found a kindred soul in James McIntosh, author of Make the Nonsense of Work Work for You and other books. If you’d like to learn more about James and his work, go to http://www.nonsenseatwork.com/        
        

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Short-term success, Long-term Failure

February 5th, 2008 · 3 Comments

This title sums up what our book, How To Become a Total Failure: 10 Rules of Highly Unsuccessful People, is all about. The book tells many stories that illustrate how people and companies apply the Rules for Failure. This blog is another repository for funny, zany and sometimes downright disturbing stories about people failing. While many […]

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The Rules for Failure

January 3rd, 2008 · 18 Comments

The basic premise of “How To Become a Total Failure” rests in the idea that true transformation of behavior comes from what each of us experiences and some of our best experiences are our failures. With this in mind, we set out to write a book that prompts readers to think of their own mistakes […]

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