This book offers a comprehensive overview of failure in business, management and consulting. It features contributions by experts from diverse fields, who share unique insights from their real-life experiences. Readers will find perspectives from leadership, project management, change management, innovation management, human resource management, counseling, restructuring, entrepreneurship and sports. Each chapter combines the latest empirical findings with relevant case studies, making for a unique book that offers a fascinating exploration of the largely unexplored area of setbacks, pitfalls, flops and disappointments in the business world.

Failure Inside Companies: Failure in Organizational Change

Failure in Innovation: Is There Such a Thing?
Failure in Projects
Failure in Teams - Why Successful Teams Do Not Fail (so Often)
Failure of Leadership
Failure in Innovation Decision Making
Failure in Personnel Development
Failure in Startup Companies - Why Failure Is a Part of Founding
Failure in Public Relations - Non-Profit Organizations Facing Growing Challenges
Failure in Intercultural Cooperation
Failure Beyond Companies: Failure in Consulting - Consultation Cannot Fail!
Failure in Coaching - Between Professional Craft and the Art of Creating a Relationship
Failure of Networks and Network Management
Failure in Volunteer Work - A Call for Strategic Volunteer Management
Failure in Public Institutions - Characteristics of Organizational Culture in the Military
Failure in Health - Burnout as an Intuitive Competence for Setting Health-Conducive Personal Bourndaries
Failure in Design
Failure inUse of Technology
Failure in Sports
Failure on Stage.