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Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure
Tim Harford
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Description for Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure
Paperback. * The Undercover Economist takes on the world - the new book from global bestseller Tim Harford Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: VSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 21. Weight in Grams: 250.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
218g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349121512
SKU
V9780349121512
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About Tim Harford
Tim Harford wrote the million-selling 'The Undercover Economist' and has won awards both for his Financial Times columns and BBC Radio show 'More or Less'.
Reviews for Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure
Tim Harford has done it again. An excellent book full of insight and surprise... I wish I had written this book
Evan Davis Tim Harford could well be Britain's Malcolm Gladwell. An entertaining mix of popular economics and psychology, this excellently written book contains fascinating stories of success and failure that will challenge your assumptions. Insightful and clever
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Evan Davis Tim Harford could well be Britain's Malcolm Gladwell. An entertaining mix of popular economics and psychology, this excellently written book contains fascinating stories of success and failure that will challenge your assumptions. Insightful and clever
... Read more