Adapt Why Success Always Starts with Failure

Name: Adapt Why Success Always Starts with Failure
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ISBN: 9781250007551

ISBN-10: 1250007550

ISBN-13: 9781250007551

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Authors: Tim Harford

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In this groundbreaking book, Tim Harford, the Undercover Economist, shows us a new and inspiring approach to solving the most pressing problems in our lives. When faced with complex situations, we have all become accustomed to looking to our leaders to set out a plan of action and blaze a path to success. Harford argues that today’s challenges simply cannot be tackled with ready-made solutions and expert opinion; the world has become far too unpredictable and profoundly complex. Instead, we mustadapt.Deftly weaving together psychology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, physics, and economics, along with the compelling story of hard-won lessons learned in the field, Harford makes a…

Book details

List price: $21.00
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 5/8/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.73" wide x 8.17" long x 0.95" tall
Weight: 0.638

Tim Harford is the author of The Undercover Economist, The Logic of Life, and Adapt. He writes two columns for the Financial Times, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, Forbes, Esquire, Parade, New York, and Wired. He lives with his family in Oxford.




Adapting



Conflict or: How organisations learn



Creating new ideas that matter or: Variation



Finding what works for the poor or: Selection



Climate change or: Changing the rules for success



Preventing financial meltdowns or: Decoupling



The adaptive organisation



Adapting and you


Notes


Acknowledgements


Index