Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure - Hardcover

Tim Harford

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1408701529 ISBN 13: 9781408701522

Publisher: Little, Brown, 2011

Synopsis

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 business and personal lives, this is a handbook for surviving - and prospering - in our complex and ever-shifting world.

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About the Author

Tim Harford is a senior columnist for the Financial Times and the presenter of Radio 4's More or Less. He was the winner of the Bastiat Prize for economic journalism in 2006, and More or Less was commended for excellence in journalism by the Royal Statistical Society in 2010, 2011 and 2012. Harford lives in Oxford with his wife and three children, and is a visiting fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. His other books include The Undercover Economist, The Logic of Life and Adapt.

Edition details

• Publisher: Little, Brown
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1408701529
• ISBN 13: 9781408701522
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 309