Adapt : : why Success Always Starts With Failure

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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.
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.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: 309 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780374100964
0374100969

SUBJECTS
Failure (Psychology)
Success in business.