Adapt : why success always starts with failure /
By: Harford, Tim
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BookPublisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.Edition: 1st ed.Description: 309 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781408701539; 0374100969Subject(s): Failure (Psychology) | Success in business | Failure (Psychology) | Success | BusinessDDC classification: 155.2/4 Online resources: Location Map
Summary:
Draws on the fields of psychology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, physics, and economics to argue that many of the problems plaguing the world at the start of the twenty-first century must be solved by trial and error, rather than solutions that are set in stone and laid out by world leaders.
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| REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 155.24 HA AD (Browse shelf) | Available | T0043755 |
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| 155.2072 HA ND Handbook of research methods in personality psychology / | 155.24 DA EM Emotional agility : | 155.24 GL DA David and Goliath : | 155.24 HA AD Adapt : | 155.24 HE UR Heuristics : | 155.24 HE UR Heuristics : | 155.24 JO WH Who moved my cheese? : |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-298) and index.
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.
Draws on the fields of psychology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, physics, and economics to argue that many of the problems plaguing the world at the start of the twenty-first century must be solved by trial and error, rather than solutions that are set in stone and laid out by world leaders.
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