Adapt : why success always starts with failure / Tim Harford.

  • Harford, Tim, 1973-
Date:
2011
  • Books

About this work

Description

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.

Publication/Creation

London : Little, Brown, 2011.

Physical description

309 pages ; 24 cm

Contributors

Contents

Adapting -- Conflict or : How organisations 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 organisation -- Adapting and you.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    AAB /HAR
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 1408701529
  • 9781408701522