The trip from the heart of Almeirim municipality, on the banks of the Amazon River, to the rural community of Cafezal takes nearly three hours on the fast boat, referred to as “the flyer” by the people living on the river. “But to get to where the nut trees are, it’s another three hours by […]
2 Historic Business Flops by Legendary Entrepreneurs Reveal a Poignant Truth About Failure
Even the most successful people confront the specter of failure. The question is, can we learn from it?
In this essay, I want to tell readers about two of the last century’s big and fascinating business failures. But first, some related insights.
In her 2008 commencement address at Harvard University, “Harry Potter” author J. K. Rowling famously asserted, “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all in which case, you fail by default.”