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GENERAL INTEREST BOOKS Adapt: Why success always starts with failure. Tim Harford, Little, Brown, 2011, 309 pages, RRP £20, ISBN 978 1 408 70152 2
Tim Harford gave a lecture at the EBEA conference in Nottingham this year. This included details of how to make a toaster, admittedly something I had never spent much time considering. This topic was so simple, yet profound. Listening to his lecture whetted my appetite for more of the world of success and failure. I'm a Harford fan anyway; the Undercover Economist was light hearted and witty but this text goes further.
Books like this make you think. It reminds me of a saying I heard from a rather annoying, smug, know-itall friend of a friend: ? have no problems in my life, just plenty of situations I would like to change/ This book covers that concept, how to manage change with minimal negative impact, thus enabling us to find the positive in the negative.
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