Read by: Jonathan Keeble
Language: English
Length: 9 hours and 54 minutes
Publisher: Little, Brown Audio
Release date: 2011-06-02
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.
2012, CMI Management Book of the Year, Long-listed
2012, Axiom Business Book Awards, Winner