Brookfield conducts post-mortems particularly on failed investments to identify root causes (execution failure, market timing, or flawed investment thesis), with flawed investment thesis being worst category and execution/timing failures being more recoverable.

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Speaker

Bruce Flatt

Evidence Quote

We try to look at...successful ones you can usually identify...unsuccessful ones...it either comes down to execution...you mistimed the market or you just made a bad bad flawed investment decision and those are the worst.

Source

Lessons from a lifetime of investing and outperforming | Bruce FlattThe Knowledge Project Podcast
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:11:43 AM

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