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Adapt : why success always starts with failure

Title
  1. Adapt : why success always starts with failure / Tim Harford.
Published by
  1. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
Author
  1. Harford, Tim, 1973-

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Description
  1. 309 pages; 24 cm
Summary
  1. 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.
Series statement
  1. Business book summary
Uniform title
  1. Business book summary.
Alternative title
  1. Why success always starts with failure
Subject
  1. Success
  2. Adaptability (Psychology)
  3. Organizational change
  4. Failure (Psychology)
  5. Fracaso (Psicología)
  6. Éxito en los negocios
  7. Succès
  8. Adaptation (Psychologie)
  9. Changement organisationnel
  10. Échec
  11. Unternehmenserfolg
  12. Anpassung
  13. Problemlösen
  14. Misserfolg
  15. Unternehmen
  16. Erfolg
  17. Erfolgsfaktor
  18. Misserfolg
  19. Adjustment (Psychology)
  20. Lernende Organisation
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.