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Manuscript at a glance
- Title
- Failure Resume: The Executive's Guide to Turning Setbacks Into Strategic Advantage
- Author
- Raed Saber Elaydi, PhD
- Category
- Nonfiction — Business / Memoir / Self-Help (literary-commercial)
- Word count
- Approximately 120,000 words
- Status
- Manuscript complete and edited; in submission to literary agents
- Structure
- Prologue + 22 chapters + Epilogue + Afterword + Appendix, in four parts
- Comp shelf
- The Body Keeps the Score, Daring Greatly, Atomic Habits, Man's Search for Meaning
- Audience
- Executives, founders, and senior professionals; general readers of literary nonfiction
- Author location
- Orinda, California
Available materials.
Materials below are available on request via the contact page. Items marked by request are sent only to verified industry inquiries.
Author biography
Short (~120 words) and long-form (~400 words) author bios suitable for editorial use, panel introductions, and podcast notes.
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High-resolution author photograph in color and black-and-white, with photographer credit information.
Request photograph →Synopsis
One-page synopsis suitable for editorial summaries and submission packets.
Request synopsis →Sample chapters by request
The Prologue and Chapter 5 are available to qualified industry inquiries (agents, editors, journalists, podcast hosts).
Request samples →Full proposal by request
The complete book proposal is available to qualified literary agents and acquiring editors.
Request proposal →Speaking & podcast
The author is available for interviews, keynotes, and podcast appearances on the practice this book teaches and on the broader work of executive interior life.
Inquire about speaking →Available topics.
- Why every adult is carrying accumulated failure, and what the carrying actually does to organizational and strategic judgment.
- The four substrate emotions — shame, fear of failure, self-doubt, and anticipated regret — and what each does in the body.
- The seven recurring patterns of accumulated failure observed across twenty-seven years of executive coaching.
- The structured practice of building a failure resume, and how the document operates differently from journaling, therapy notes, or self-help exercises.
- Implications of the practice for executive succession, founder transitions, and senior leadership development.
- Why the work cannot be performed in public, and what kind of private practice it actually requires.
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