The Black Box Principle: Why Mistakes Are the Foundation of Our Achievements in Sports, Business, and Life
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The Black Box Principle: Why Mistakes Are the Foundation of Our Achievements in Sports, Business, and Life
14.99 €
In modern culture, it's common to celebrate achievements and ignore failures. Mistakes are either perceived as unfortunate circumstances and random deviations from the norm, or, conversely, they are overestimated—in which case the person who made the wrong decision is accused of incompetence and stigmatized. Matthew Syed, a British journalist and businessman, former tennis great, and multiple Olympian, draws on his extensive experience in sports, entrepreneurship, and creativity to conclude that this attitude toward mistakes deprives people and organizations of the opportunity to learn from failures and address their root causes. Syed explores the origins and consequences of mistakes in science, engineering, law, and sports, uncovering the psychological mechanisms behind the desire to hide failures, and demonstrating the path everyone must take to change their attitude toward mistakes and use them as the foundation for future success. "By telling success stories, we will seek to uncover all its components. We will uncover and explore the secret processes that enable us to learn, change, and create—in business, in politics, and in everyday life. As we will see, in all cases, success is invariably explained—unexpectedly and often counterintuitively—by how we respond to failure." (Matthew Syed)
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