The book will profile the major missteps of business and financial leaders and how they turned mistakes into success. Those profiled include Suze Orman, Steve Forbes, Jim Cramer, Jack Bogle, Jack Welch, PIMCO’s Bill Gross and Mohamed El-Erian, Hulu.com CEO Jason Kilar, and many others. Author Bob Sellers had exclusive interviews with each and every person profiled, and the book provides insights on what you can learn from their mistakes. Did you know Suze Ormans biggest mistake is hiring an employee who ripped off her files and stole from her? Says Orman: She called the brokerage firm that was giving all the commissions to us and she instructed them to send the commissions to her at her address. She did everything she could to steal the business right out from under me.” Did you know that Jack Welch’s biggest mistake is blowing the roof of a plastic factory during a haywire experiment? Did you know that Vanguard creator Jack Bogle was once fired by ladder-climbing board members? Says Bogle- They had more votes than I did. They had put all their friends on the Wellington Management Company board. I didnt think about politics in those days, I was pretty naïve.”
Book Details:
- Author: Bob Sellers
- ISBN: 9780470598771
- Year Published: 2010
- Pages: 224
- BISAC: BUS000000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/General
About the Book and Topic:
The book will profile the major missteps of business and financial leaders and how they turned mistakes into success. Those profiled include Suze Orman, Steve Forbes, Jim Cramer, Jack Bogle, Jack Welch, PIMCO’s Bill Gross and Mohamed El-Erian, Hulu.com CEO Jason Kilar, and many others. Author Bob Sellers had exclusive interviews with each and every person profiled, and the book provides insights on what you can learn from their mistakes. Did you know Suze Ormans biggest mistake is hiring an employee who ripped off her files and stole from her? Says Orman: She called the brokerage firm that was giving all the commissions to us and she instructed them to send the commissions to her at her address. She did everything she could to steal the business right out from under me.” Did you know that Jack Welch’s biggest mistake is blowing the roof of a plastic factory during a haywire experiment? Did you know that Vanguard creator Jack Bogle was once fired by ladder-climbing board members? Says Bogle- They had more votes than I did. They had put all their friends on the Wellington Management Company board. I didnt think about politics in those days, I was pretty naïve.”
Forbes Best Business Mistakes: How Todays Top Business Leaders Turned Missteps into Success will profile the major missteps of business and financial leaders and how they turned mistakes into success. It looks at how the biggest mistake you can make can be made positive. With Bob Sellers’ insider interviews, readers will learn what to do when misfortune strikes.
Nice Platform: Sellers was an anchor at CNBC, Fox News, and NBC. He has personal contacts from Suze Orman to Jack Welch. He recently appeared on “Power Lunch” and “CNBC Reports.” Expected appearances include these shows as well as programs on Fox Business News, Fox News Channel, CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg, and numerous local syndicates. Forbes Support: Forbes will support the book through Forbes magazine (just under 1 million circulation), email blasts to 400,000 subscribers, and exposure on various Forbes Web sites (main site receives 28 million unique visits per month). Inside Track: Author Bob Sellers had sit-down interviews with each person included in the book- it will include exclusive insights from business and finance legends. Did You Know: Did you know Suze Orman’s biggest mistake is hiring an employee who ripped off her files and stole from her? Or that Jack Bogle was once fired by ladder-climbing board members? Sellers gives you the inside track on this and much more.
About the Author
Bob Sellers (New York, NY) is a veteran television journalist who has recently returned to the financial services industry. He spent years as an anchor on CNBC and Fox News Channel. He was the anchor of FOX News Live and did headline updates during weekend evenings. On CNBC, Bob anchored three hours a day on Todays Business and Market Watch following daily developments in the financial markets and interviewing business leaders such as Bill Gates, Jack Welch, Suze Orman, Martha Stewart and Jack Bogle. Bob also wrote business columns for Success and Gear magazines and has placed columns in various newspapers. Today, Bob is a financial advisor at Gary Goldberg real- time business information news updates; the complete online editions of Forbes magazine, Forbes Global, Forbes ASAP and Forbes FYI; a powerful search engine with access to all current and archived Forbes content; stock and mutual fund stock quotes, and comprehensive company profiles; an expanded online version of the Forbes.com Best of The Web guide; and a wide array of interactive tools, calculators and databases, including the annual Forbes Lists.