Forbes best business mistakes: how today's top business leaders turned missteps into success

The book will profile the major missteps of business and financial leaders and how they turned mistakes into success. Those profiled include Suze Orman, Steve Forbes, Jim Cramer, Jack Bogle, Jack Welch, PIMCO's Bill Gross and MohamedEl-Erian, Hulu.com CEO Jason Kilar, and many others. Author Bob Sellers had exclusive interviews with each and every person profiled, and the book providesinsights on what you can learn from their mistakes. Did you know Suze Ormans biggest mistake is hiring an employee who ripped off her files and stole from her? Says Orman: She called the brokerage firm that was giving all the commissions to us and she instructed them to send the commissions to her at her address. She did everything she could to steal the business right out from under me.’ Did you know that Jack Welch's biggest mistake is blowing the roof of a plastic factory during a haywire experiment? Did you know that Vanguard creator Jack Bogle was once fired by ladder-climbing board members? Says Bogle- They had more votes than I did. They had put all their friends on the Wellington Management Company board. I didnt think about politics in those days, I was prettynaïve.’

• ISBN: 978-0-470-59877-1
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 224
• Fecha Publicación: 21/07/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés