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Revision as of 18:27, 14 October 2006 by 69.121.103.109 (talk) (→Criteria for failure)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) For other senses of this word, see Failure (disambiguation).Failure (or flop) in general refers to the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective. It may be viewed as the opposite of success.
References
- Lansdowne, Bridget L.M. BOOM, BUST, BANG!: A History of American Failures. Staskin Mellville-Organization Press, 2004. ISBN ?.
- Charles Perrow, Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies, New Tork: Basic Books, 1984. Paperback reprint, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-691-00412-9
- Sandage, Scott A. Born Losers: A History of Failure in America. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2005. ISBN 067401510X, ISBN 067402107X.
See also
- Cascading failure
- Debugging
- Failure analysis
- Failure rate
- Failure mode
- Murphy's law
- New product development
- Non-event
- Power outage
- Product
- Product management
- Single point of failure
- Structural failure
- Tensile strength
- White elephant
- System accident
- Miserable Failure, a political google bomb against the current president of the United States of America, George W. Bush
External links
- Critical spare parts
- Failure magazine
- On Entreprenurial Failure
- Designing Building Failures
- Success with Failure, Comic strip featuring the ups and downs (mostly the latter) of IT consulting