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Everything we know about solving the world's problems is wrong. Out: Plans, experts and above all, leaders. In: Adapting - improvise rather than plan; fail, learn, and try again In this groundbreaking new book, Tim Harford shows how the world's most complex and important problems - including terrorism, climate change, poverty, innovation, and the financial crisis - can only be solved from the bottom up by rapid experimenting and adapting. From a spaceport in the Mojave Desert to the street battles of Iraq, from a blazing offshore drilling rig to everyday decisions in our business and personal lives, this is a handbook for surviving - and prospering - in our complex and ever-shifting world.
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Adapt. Why Success Always Starts with Failure, Tim Harford
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- 2012
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- Title
- Adapt. Why Success Always Starts with Failure
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Tim Harford
- Publisher
- Abacus Software
- Released
- 2012
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0349121516
- ISBN13
- 9780349121512
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Business, Business & Management, Self-Help, Psychological Topics, Personal Growth, Science, Society, Leadership, Evolution, Innovation, Self-Realization, Development of Thinking
- First published
- 2011
- Original title
- Adapt. Why Success Always Starts with Failure
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
- Description
- Everything we know about solving the world's problems is wrong. Out: Plans, experts and above all, leaders. In: Adapting - improvise rather than plan; fail, learn, and try again In this groundbreaking new book, Tim Harford shows how the world's most complex and important problems - including terrorism, climate change, poverty, innovation, and the financial crisis - can only be solved from the bottom up by rapid experimenting and adapting. From a spaceport in the Mojave Desert to the street battles of Iraq, from a blazing offshore drilling rig to everyday decisions in our business and personal lives, this is a handbook for surviving - and prospering - in our complex and ever-shifting world.