Adapt
Why Success Always Starts with Failure
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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.
Publisher:
New York : - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages:
309
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9780374100964, 0374100969
Language:
English
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.
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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-298) and index.
Statement of responsibility:
Tim Harford
Physical description:
309 p. ; 24 cm.
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Add a CommentThis well-written book uses some sharp, memorable examples drawn from real life. Harford gives many examples from the military and business worlds of how the world has proven to be more complicated and surprising that many experts and leaders thought. He uses these examples to argue that it is important for organizations to be open to feedback and diverse approaches to solving problems, and to avoid groupthink and conformism. While parts of this uneven book are quite insightful, Harford ironically makes some of the very mistakes he warns against. Harford clearly wants to be a sort of British business press version of Malcolm Gladwell. Unfortunately, Harford is both more ideological than Gladwell and less humble - which is odd, given his message of the need to learn from our mistakes and nurture experiments.