Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure

Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure

by TimHarford (Author)

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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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Publisher: Abacus
Published: 01 Mar 2012

ISBN 10: 0349121516
ISBN 13: 9780349121512
Book Overview: * Publicity campaign including live and online events * Specially commissioned trailer to re-ignite buzz around the paperback * Online promotion via Timharford.com, @TimHarford and LB's channels * Consumer campaign reaching key interest groups

Media Reviews
Tim Harford has done it again. An excellent book full of insight and surprise... I wish I had written this book -- Evan Davis Tim Harford could well be Britain's Malcolm Gladwell. An entertaining mix of popular economics and psychology, this excellently written book contains fascinating stories of success and failure that will challenge your assumptions. Insightful and clever -- Alex Bellos, Author Of Alex's Adventures In Numberland
Author Bio
Tim Harford wrote the million-selling 'The Undercover Economist' and has won awards both for his Financial Times columns and BBC Radio show 'More or Less'.