TY - BOOK AU - Harford,Tim TI - Adapt: why success always starts with failure SN - 9780374100964 (hbk.) AV - BF 575 H278a 2011 U1 - 155.2/4 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - Farrar, Straus and Giroux KW - Failure (Psychology) KW - Success in business KW - Fracaso (Psicología) KW - Éxito en los negocios N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -