Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success

The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success

By Megan McArdle

"Clever, surprisingly fast-paced, and enlightening. " -- Forbes Most new products fail. So do most businesses. And most of us, if we are honest, have experienced a major setback in our personal or professional lives. So what determines who will bounce back and follow up with a home run. What separates those who keep treading water from those who harness the lessons from their mistakes.

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Publisher: Penguin Books
Publish Date: 02/24/2015
Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780143126362
ISBN-10: 0143126369
Language: English

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"Clever, surprisingly fast-paced, and enlightening." --Forbes Most new products fail. So do most businesses. And most of us, if we are honest, have experienced a major setback in our personal or professional lives. So what determines who will bounce back and follow up with a home run? What separates those who keep treading water from those who harness the lessons from their mistakes? One of our most popular business bloggers, Megan McArdle takes insights from emergency room doctors, kindergarten teachers, bankruptcy judges, and venture capitalists to teach us how to reinvent ourselves in the face of failure. The Up Side of Down is a book that just might change the way you lead your life.

About the Author

Megan McArdle is a columnist at Bloomberg View and appears regularly on MSNBC, Fox News, and NPR. She has been a correspondent for the Atlantic and the Economist and started one of the first business and economics blogs, Asymmetric Information.

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