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How to Lose a Billion Dollars

Aug 4, 2011 - by Joel Lessem

One of my favourite books is Billion Dollar Lessons by Paul Carroll and Chunka Mui.  The book is distilled from researching 2,500 significant business failures.  The authors describe: 

The extent of the failures was stunning. Since 1981, 423 U.S. companies with assets of more than $500 million filed for bankruptcy. Their combined assets at the time of their bankruptcy filings totaled more than $1.5 trillion....Their combined annual revenue was almost $830 billion.

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