Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure

Description

Product ID:	9780349121512
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Title:	Adapt
Subtitle:	Why Success Always Starts with Failure
Authors:	Author: Tim Harford
Page Count:	320
Subjects:	Advice on careers and achieving success, Advice on careers & achieving success
Description:	Select Guide Rating * The Undercover Economist takes on the world - the new book from global bestseller Tim Harford 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.
Imprint Name:	Abacus
Publisher Name:	Little, Brown Book Group
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	2012-03-01

Weight	220 g
Dimensions	197 × 134 × 21 mm