Forbes Best Business Mistakes: How Today's Top Business Leaders Turned Missteps into Success

Forbes Best Business Mistakes: How Today's Top Business Leaders Turned Missteps into Success

by Bob Sellers
Forbes Best Business Mistakes: How Today's Top Business Leaders Turned Missteps into Success

Forbes Best Business Mistakes: How Today's Top Business Leaders Turned Missteps into Success

by Bob Sellers

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Overview

Today's top business leaders reveal how to make even the biggest mistakes work for you

Forbes Best Business Mistakes reveals practical lessons from some of today's most successful business leaders to show you how to turn a bad business situation into a success.

Based on exclusive sit-down interviews with some of today's most successful men and women, author Bob Sellers shares their stories to provide valuable insights and lessons that can help you can learn from their mistakes. Those profiled in Forbes Best Business Mistakes include the likes of Wall Street guru Peter Lynch, larger-than-life media personalities Jim Cramer and Suze Orman, legendary CEO Jack Welch, and newcomer Jason Kilar, CEO of Hulu, who is poised to change the movie and TV industry landscape as we know it forever. Other names include PIMCO's Bill Gross and Mohamed El-Erian and Home Depot Founder Arthur Blank.

  • Reveal how top business and financial leaders turned their biggest mistakes into success stories
  • Based on exclusive interviews with some of today's most successful professionals, from Jason Kilar of Hulu to Suze Orman
  • Contains practical lessons on how you can turn a bad business situation around

As Malcolm Forbes put it, "Failure is success if we learn from it." Forbes Best Business Mistakes shares the missteps of others so you can learn from them, be inspired by them, and succeed where you may not have seen opportunity before.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780470598771
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 07/13/2010
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Bob Sellers is a veteran television journalist and former financial advisor. He spent years as an anchor on CNBC and Fox News Channel, and wrote business columns for Success and Gear magazines. Sellers has also contributed commentaries to Marketplace Radio. He anchors evening newscasts at the NBC affiliate in Nashville.

Forbes is the leading business magazine in the United States, with an audience of more than 5 million readers. Since 1917, Forbes's mission has been to provide access to information and insights that ensure its readers' success.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments v

About the Author vi

Introduction vii

Part 1 Legends and Gurus 1

Chapter 1 Jack Welch 3

Chapter 2 John C. Bogle 7

Chapter 3 Peter Lynch 13

Chapter 4 Bill Gross 19

Chapter 5 William O'Neil 25

Chapter 6 Jim Rogers 33

Chapter 7 Mohamed El-Erian 39

Chapter 8 Robert Prechter 45

Part 2 Chief Executives 57

Chapter 9 Arthur Blank 59

Chapter 10 David Novak 67

Chapter 11 Dr. Bill Frist 75

Chapter 12 Barbara Corcoran 81

Chapter 13 Steve Forbes 85

Chapter 14 Danny Wegman 91

Chapter 15 Gary Goldberg 97

Chapter 16 Jerry Levin 101

Chapter 17 R.J. Kirk 111

Part 3 The Next Generation 119

Chapter 18 Meredith Whitney 121

Chapter 19 Jason Kilar 127

Chapter 20 Ian Bremmer 135

Chapter 21 Jim Buckmaster 141

Chapter 22 John Cappelletti 149

Part 4 Personalities 155

Chapter 23 Suze Orman 157

Chapter 24 Jim Cramer 163

Chapter 25 Mark Cuban 167

Chapter 26 Ben Stein 171

Chapter 27 Arianna Huffington 177

Chapter 28 Herb Greenberg 183

Chapter 29 Arthur Laffer 189

Chapter 30 Dave Ramsey 195

Conclusion 203

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