At a conference by and for some of the world’s most extraordinary thinkers, leaders, and winners, the general thematic focus was success. Yet perhaps a more valuable topic to explore might be the opposite: the pursuits gone horribly wrong. The bungled policies and mangled balance sheets. The mistaken hires and botched turn-arounds. The screwups so royally idiotic that they drove an entire Board of Directors to collectively gasp in disbelief.