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In the 1960s, IBM CEO Tom Watson called an executive into his office after his venture lost $10 million. The man assumed he was being fired. Watson told him, "Fired? Hell, I spent $10 million educating you. I just want to be sure you learned the right lessons." In Billion Dollar Lessons, Paul Carroll and Chunka Mui draw on research into more than 750 business failures to reveal the misguided tactics that mire companies over and over.

Your Expert Team is a valuable guide for affluent individuals, families, and business owners in need of advanced financial planning. By utilizing a combination of different perspectives and expertise, Your Expert Team shows how a team-based approach to advanced financial planning can increase your overall financial health.

The seven strategies that account for failed businesses

Platform for Wealth is a valuable guide for energy professionals in search of essential information about protecting and building wealth through portfolio and cash management strategies. Listeners will gain insight into the complex benefit options available to energy professionals, as well as different disbursement strategies to generate income for retirees.

The current conventional wisdom in the business world holds that execution is the key to a successful business strategy. Many experts have gone so far as to say that execution is more important than strategy.