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 today's culture, it is common to celebrate achievements and ignore failures. Mistakes are perceived either as fatal coincidences and accidental deviations from the norm, or, on the contrary, they are overemphasized - then the person who made the wrong decision is accused of incompetence and stigmatized. Matthew Syed, a British journalist and businessman, formerly an outstanding tennis player and participant in several Olympics, draws on his extensive sporting, entrepreneurial, and creative experience to conclude that this attitude toward mistakes takes away the opportunity for people and organizations to learn from failure and root out the cause of failure. Syed explores the origins and consequences of mistakes in science, technology, law, and sports, uncovers the psychological mechanisms behind the desire to cover up failure, and shows the path everyone must take to change their attitudes toward mistakes and put them at the heart of future success. "In telling the stories of success, we will try to find all its components. We will uncover and explore the secret processes that allow us to learn, to change, to create - in business, in politics, in ordinary life. As we will see, in all cases, success is invariably explained - unexpectedly and often not very logically - by how we respond to failure." (Matthew Syed)
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