Rise and fall of Richard Branson (Virgin Group)

Its not how you fell, but how you rose from your fall

Entrepreneurs just like the product life cycle, grow, mature, decline sputters and die.  Observe this in the life of Richard Branson.    The sun seemed not to set at Virgin group.  But it did.          

What are the lessons we should learn from the fall of Hitachi

Its not how you fell, but how you rose from your fall

Hitachi excavators are renowned from their high quality and so are their power generation  machinery, power plants, motors.  

What happened to them?  What lessons can we learn from them?

Rise and fall of Panasonic - it was a model of how we should manage a company - what happened

Its not how you fell, but how you rose from your fall

During my younger years my model, idol for management was Japanese company for values, marketing, operations  (quality, tpm, kaizen) employee relations.  And one of the top companies was National founded by Konosuke Matsuhita, who failure after failures established  National and Panasonic.  They expanded worldwide.  Matsushita failed in his initial new product launches.  But these were important lessons to him.

After his death, Panasonic also seemed to die.  For 25 years, they had no new product launch and have forgotten marketing  These were impt tenets from the founder:   innovation and marketing (products dont sell themselves.  Panasonic senior executives do not seem to have learned from their mistakes.  They are not missionaries but are employees enjoying jobs and that is too bad for Panasonic and Matsuhita.   

And very soon Japanese economic landscapes can be full of lessons in failures and how to benefit from them.

47 years of profitability, no lay off - Southwest

Its not how you fell, but how you rose from your fall

Started with Gallagher.  Employees first.  Employees will treat customers right.   Simple management value.

What went wrong.   

One way to sharpen your mind and learn to be successful is to study failures

Its not how you fell, but how you rose from your fall

Welcome to this post.   

Just read this morning a book for genius which recommends that we study failures.   To be successful we must study why and how other people fail.  Failure has never been a subject in schools.  In the MBA class at GSB there is a portion in book individual reports is Failing forward by John Maxwell  John Maxwell emphasized that failure is not an end destination but a process from whence you can learn

Let us become more of a genius and success by learning more about failure