The up side of down why failing well is the key to success

"If you want to succeed in business and in life, Megan McArdle argues in this hugely thought-provoking book, you have to learn how to harness the power of failure. McArdle has been one of our most popular business bloggers for more than a decade, covering the rise and fall of some the world...

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Main Author: McArdle, Megan (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Viking, 2014.
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Summary: "If you want to succeed in business and in life, Megan McArdle argues in this hugely thought-provoking book, you have to learn how to harness the power of failure. McArdle has been one of our most popular business bloggers for more than a decade, covering the rise and fall of some the world's top companies and challenging us to think differently about how we live, learn, and work. Drawing on cutting-edge research in science, psychology, economics, and business, and taking insights from turnaround experts, emergency room doctors, venture capitalists, child psychologists, bankruptcy judges, and mountaineers, McArdle argues that America is unique in its willingness to let people and companies fail, but also in its determination to let them pick up after the fall. Failure is how people and businesses learn. So how do you reinvent yourself when you are down? Dynamic and punchy, McArdle teaches us how to recognize mistakes early to channel setbacks into future success"--Provided by publisher.
Physical Description: xiv, 299 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-290) and index.
ISBN: 9780670026142 (hardback)
067002614X (hardback)
Author Notes: Megan McArdle is a special correspondent for Newsweek/The Daily Beast . A graduate of the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago, she has been a finance and economics correspondent for The Economist and a business columnist and blogger for The Atlantic . She lives with her husband, Peter, in Washington, D.C.