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Adapt : why success always starts with failure
- Title
- Adapt : why success always starts with failure / Tim Harford.
- Author
- Harford, Tim, 1973-
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | BF575.F14 H37 2011 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 309 pages; 24 cm
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Business book summary
- Uniform Title
- Business book summary.
- Alternative Title
- Why success always starts with failure
- Subject
- Success
- Adaptability (Psychology)
- Organizational change
- Failure (Psychology)
- Fracaso (Psicología)
- Éxito en los negocios
- Succès
- Adaptation (Psychologie)
- Changement organisationnel
- Échec
- Unternehmenserfolg
- Anpassung
- Problemlösen
- Misserfolg
- Unternehmen
- Erfolg
- Erfolgsfaktor
- Misserfolg
- Adjustment (Psychology)
- Lernende Organisation
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780374100964
- 0374100969
- 9781250007551
- 1250007550
- LCCN
- 2011006188
- OCLC
- ocn676728659
- 676728659
- SCSB-9401862
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries