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

    Written by Megan McArdle

    Narrated by Mia Barron

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    For readers of Drive, Outliers, and Daring Greatly , a counterintuitive, paradigm-shifting new take on what makes people and companies succeed Most new products fail. So do most small 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? 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. The Up Side of Down marks the emergence of an author with her thumb on the pulse whose book just might change the way you lead your life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateFeb 11, 2014
    ISBN9781470381677
    The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success
    Author

    Megan McArdle

    Megan McArdle is a columnist for Bloomberg View, and has been a correspondent for The Economist, The Atlantic and The Daily Beast. She lives in Washington DC with her husband Peter, and her bull mastiff, Fitzgerald. www.meganmcardle.com

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      Excellent. Great mix of ideas and stories. Made me laugh on occasion.