August 12, 2024 Tech failures like the Crowdstrike outage are the new normal. Here’s how leaders can prep for them PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada says companies can’t stop incidents from happening, but they can reduce the risks. BY Stephanie Mehta Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto … Continue reading Tech failures like the Crowdstrike outage are the new normal. Here’s how leaders can prep for them
By Sam Becker March 13, 2023 The aftermath of Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse is still unfolding, and the bank is now under FDIC control, allowing insured depositors to access their money as of Monday morning. While that may help some of the bank’s thousands of corporate customers make payroll in the coming days, … Continue reading What will happen to SVB employees? Past bank failures may provide some insight
By Chris Morris January 12, 2023 There’s no denying that the Consumer Electronics Show has produced a number of truly revolutionary products. But for every success there are dozens—possibly hundreds—of gadgets, apps, doodads, and whatchamacallits that are bound to never be seen again. It’s not just startups that fall short. Even some of the … Continue reading Lessons from 8 of the biggest tech product failures of all time
By Lydia Dishman December 27, 2022 From underestimating the impact of economic malaise on the job market to expecting year over year marketing efforts to stay the same, here are the nine answers to the questions, “What was your biggest failure in 2022? What did you do about it? And what will you do … Continue reading 9 leaders share their biggest failures in 2022
Deven Samant — April 30, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted stark weaknesses inherent in systems we take for granted most of the time. An approach that is rapidly gaining ground in digital engineering circles is chaos engineering, a way of building resilience and protect against unforeseen interruptions in service. When it comes to the … Continue reading Using Chaos Engineering to Root Out Failures Before they Become Outages
Liesha Petrovich — September 27, 2019 Follow @lieshapetrovich Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash We pour our heart and soul into our businesses. We spend endless hours coming up with a strategy to sell our amazing product. We rewrite copy over and over. We practice our sales pitch a million times in the mirror. And … Continue reading Embracing Epic Failures on Our Path to Success
Dave Brock — September 14, 2019 Follow @davidabrock — September 14, 2019 As much as we want to, and should, focus on our sales successes, a large part of sales has to do with failure. We win some, we will always lose some. We try a certain approach, say a prospecting program, or a new … Continue reading Learning From Our Failures
Daniel Burrus — February 13, 2019 Follow @DanielBurrus — February 13, 2019 If you want to stand out in today’s marketplace, you must work smarter, not harder. This is easier said than done, however, as despite their best intentions, companies get snarled in the glaring failures that derail business growth and stagnate profits. In order … Continue reading 7 Failures of Business Growth
Matthew Foster — January 22, 2017 — January 22, 2017 According to Statista, the world is set to spend $ 2.143 trillion on e-commerce sales in 2017. This aligns with the trend of annualized growth rate of the e-commerce market in the US, standing at 14.81% and not showing signs of slowing down. A power … Continue reading Disaster Recovery: How to Prepare Your Business for Systems Failures [Infographic]
David CraneJune 28, 2015 I suck…absolutely suck at creating blog titles. I know this and that’s why I usually get help. But there’s a lot of other areas of my blog-writing suckitude that I’m not as clear on. So I thought it would be helpful to do an audit. I had three of my colleagues … Continue reading My Biggest Blog Failures and What We Can Learn from Them
