If you have been trying to fail but just keep succeeding, this is the article for you. More likely, you’ll be interested in Carroll and Mui’s advice to avoid becoming one of the 750 spectacular failures they looked at in their research. They found that most of these failures resulted from flawed strategies... [read more...]

Spiegel and McArthur point out some parallels between our energy situation in early 2009 and that of the late 1970s, although they actually understate the case. Among the differences between then and now they list energy insecurity, growing worldwide demand, and global climate change—but in the 1970s... [read more...]

In over 20 years, Saturn has never made a profit for General Motors, and Polaroid went bankrupt in 2001 after years of failing to flourish in the new world of digital photography. These two events exemplify a common tendency among companies: staying too long with a losing venture, whether it’s a product... [read more...]