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Why Most Things Fail
Paul Ormerod
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Description for Why Most Things Fail
Paperback. Focuses on why some businesses fail, and how to avoid it. This book looks at a truth all too seldom acknowledged: most commercial and public policy ventures will not succeed. It shows what strategies corporations, businesses and governments will need to adopt to stand a chance of prospering in a world where only one thing is certain. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: KCA; KCBM; KJC; KJVB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 224.
From the best-selling author of The Death of Economics and Butterfly Economics, a ground-breaking look at a truth all too seldom acknowledged: most commercial and public policy ventures will not succeed.
Paul Ormerod draws upon recent advances in biology to help us understand the surprising consequences of the Iron Law of Failure. And he shows what strategies corporations, businesses and governments will need to adopt to stand a chance of prospering in a world where only one thing is certain.
Product Details
Publisher
Faber and Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
223g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571220137
SKU
V9780571220137
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-69
About Paul Ormerod
Paul Ormerod is the author of The Death of Economics, Butterfly Economics and Why Most Things Fail. He studied economics at Cambridge and his career has spanned the academic and practical business worlds, including working at the Economist and as a director of the Henley Centre for Forecasting. He is a Fellow of the British Academy of Social ... Read more
Reviews for Why Most Things Fail
"'Engrossing and entertaining... A careful, comprehensible analysis of the limits of human rationality's ability to control the world.' Alasdair Palmer, Sunday Telegraph 'Gripping stuff.' Krishna Guha, Financial Times"