40 Innovators and Thought Leaders Who Need to Sit in Time Out and Thought-Lead About What They’ve Done
The bad boys of bad business
It’s times like these that we stop and thank our lucky stars for the fact that we’re complete nobodies whose decisions mean absolutely nothing. Just thinking about the pressure that these decision makers were under is enough to make us a little faint.
Maybe that’s why they seemed to have blurted out the first boneheaded idea that came to mind. The thought of stewing in the anxiety of their pitch for any longer was just unbearable.
Here are some of those blurts that molded nicely into blunders…
Dr. Pepper
McDonald’s
News Corp.
Grumman Aerospace Corporation
Source: Pueblo Railway
Walmart
Barrick Gold Corporation
Time Warner and AOL Merger
Elizabeth Holmes
Ulta Beauty
Google Glass
Krispy Kreme
The Marketers of Switzerland
Burger King
Source: Pixaura
Ford
Brazilian Oil Tycoon Elke Batista
Sam Bankman-Fried
Disney
Elon Musk
LG’s Marketing Department
Macy’s
Marketing Expert Tung Desem Waringin
Snapchat’s Marketing Department
Timothy’s World Coffee’s Marketing Department
Molson’s Marketing Department
American Apparel’s Marketing Department
Audi
HyperSocial CEO
Terrible Predictions About the iPhone
Atari CEO Ray Kassar
Ryanair
LifeLock CEO Todd Davis
Actionable Insights’ CEO
Rebecca Hernandez,
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Clearlink CEO
‘Papa’ John Schnatter
Source: WFLA