Adapt : why success always starts with failure /

Harford, Tim, 1973-

Adapt : why success always starts with failure / Why success always starts with failure Tim Harford. - 1st ed. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. - 309 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Adapting -- Conflict or : How organizations 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 organization -- Adapting and you.

Outlines a counterintuitive approach to changing the world by assessing its failures, drawing on myriad disciplines to argue that complex challenges must be met through adaptive trial-and-error practices that do not depend on expert opinions or ready-made solutions.

9780374100964 (hbk.) 0374100969 (hbk.)

2011006188


Failure (Psychology)
Success in business.
Fracaso (Psicología)
Éxito en los negocios.

BF 575 / H278a 2011

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