We always hear about the success. Yet we really learn more from failure.
People are always ready to talk about what went right.
They seldom are eager to confess their mistakes. Which is why I found an article in the September-October issue of the Harvard Business Review so interesting. He left after the name and assets were purchased by Paul Harris stores. It was the fall of one of the highest-flying catalog retailers in the country. Peterman bought one during a trip to Jackson Hole, Wyo., in the 1980s.