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Adapt : why success always starts with failure / Tim Harford.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: 309 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780374100964 (hbk.)
  • 9780349121512
Other title:
  • Why success always starts with failure
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 155.2/4 22
LOC classification:
  • BF575.F14 H37 2011
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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