Failure that dreaded word. The fear of failure curtails growth and inhibits people from taking risks. Getting people to talk about failure, especially their own, is the singularly most difficult thing to do. In Why I Failed, Shweta Punj does just that by getting leaders to share experiences of when they did not succeed and how they turned it around to their advantage to emerge indomitable and stronger than before. This book shows that it is okay to fail as long as you treat failure as a stepping stone for greater things. About the Author Shweta Punj is a business journalist, television host, and social entrepreneur. Currently Associate Editor at Business Today, she has worked for more than a decade in India and the US reporting on business and policy for a wide variety of organizations including CNBC TV18, Inside Washington Publishers, Bloomberg UTV, and NewsX. A two-part series authored by her on outsourcing was nominated for the Best Business Story Award - North America. Shweta has interviewed policy makers and thought leaders including the then Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee; Planning Commission Chief Montek Singh Ahluwalia; and former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha. She has reported extensively on real estate, economic offences, and economic policy. She is also the co-founder of the New Delhi-based research think tank The Whypoll Foundation which runs Indias first public service and governance feedback social networking domain www.whypoll.org.
