Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure
by Tim Harford
The author argues that today’s challenges simply cannot be tackled with ready-made solutions and expert opinions; the world has become far too unpredictable and profoundly complex. Instead, we must adapt—improvise rather than plan, work from the bottom up rather than the top down, and take baby steps rather than great leaps forward. Drawing from research across disciplines — psychology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, physics, mathematics, political science, and economics—and interviews with some of the world’s most pioneering leaders, thinkers, and strategists, Harford presents hard-won lessons learned in the field and the importance of adaptive, trial-and-error processes in tackling issues such as fostering innovation, climate change, poverty, the financial crises, and conflict.
Articles, reviews, TED Talks, etc. related to the book Adapt
1. Review Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure – review
Rafael Behr The Guardian/The Observer
June 3, 2011
2. Review Adapt
Alex Knapp Forbes
July 24, 2011
3. TED Talk Tim Harford: Trial, Error and the God Complex
July 2011, 18:07 minutes
4. Book Highlights Adapting
Scott Lampman (USAID)
5. Review article and interview with Tim Harford (audio)
NPR Radio – Morning Edition
May 23, 2011 (5 min. 25 sec.)
6. From Toasters to the War in Iraq: How Group Think Leads to Failure (audio)
ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corp.)
July 18, 2011 (22 min. 58 sec.)