HOW TO BECOME A TOTAL FAILURE

Yellowstone National Park has been an environmental proving ground. Park rangers told us that the forestry pendulum initially swung wide toward micro-management of public lands and animals. Wolves were considered to be a menace and bounties were offered to eliminate them. Without the wolves the elk herds flourished. The elks ate all edible vegetation in sight until […]

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I spent the weekend in Scottsdale, AZ attending a restaurateur’s convention. That’s an odd place for a printing professional to go, isn’t it? What does printing ink have to do with sauce? Or presses with ovens? So why was I there? I went at the invitation of Kevin Hall whom I’ve written about before (see link). Kevin […]

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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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My little blog last time about Prudential Financial showed up in Google’s top four. That’s good news and that’s bad. The good news is that the corporate executive cancer of greed gets a better chance of being exposed, but the bad news is that not enough people are writing about it. If my teeny-tiny voice […]

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Wells Fargo announced a profit and Wall Street showed signs of life. It didn’t matter that the $3 Billion profit was much less than the $25 Billion they received from the public. By my reckoning that still puts them $22 Billion in the hole, even if they gave the entire $3 Billion back to the […]

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I’ve been writing a lot about the negative side of the success equation, and that is because Bill’s and Phil’s book is focused on the things people do to guarantee failure.When we eliminate these failure actions we can soar. It’s like a seabird trying to cross the ocean with an anchor tied to its leg. […]

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This isn’t news to anyone that the latest changes in the bankruptcy laws have made it tougher to declare bankruptcy and get protection under the law. Who benefits from these changes? The banks and other financial organizations. I maintain that this is just another way for the banks to duck responsibility for their actions, and […]

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I have noticed Honda has been doing an online ad campaign called “Failure: The Secret to Success.” Click on the links below to watch the videos and see how these people have turned failure to success.
 
http://dreams.honda.com/#/feature_fa
http://dreams.honda.com/#/video_fa
 

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It’s season 8 on American Idol and this is the first year I’ve really watched it. I think there are 6 contestants who could all win the final prize and I was wondering how in the world we can choose between say, Adam Lambert and Danny Gokey or Lil Rounds and Allison Iraheta. They’re all […]

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