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Brilliant mistakes : finding success on the far side of failure /
If you have ever flown in an airplane, used electricity from a nuclear power plant, or taken an antibiotic, you have benefited from a brilliant mistake. Schoemaker proveds a practical roadmap for using mistakes to accelerate learning for your organization and yourself.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
Wharton Digital Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Dedication in Memoriam; Contents; Preface; Introduction: When Wrong Is Right; "With Every Mistake We Must Surely Be Learning"; The Path to Brilliance; Part One: Rethinking Mistakes; Chapter 1: Context Matters: Defining Mistakes; Defining Mistakes; Who Makes the Call?; Chapter 2: Not All Errors Are Equal: Brilliant Mistakes; Mistakes with Potential; Questioning Assumptions; Types of Errors, and Their Relative Benefits; Chapter 3: Why and How We Err: Causes and Remedies; Developing a Forensic Mind-set; Innocent Mistakes; Drowning in a Pool of Subjectivity; The 4 Key Phases in Decision Making.
- Better Decision MakingPart Two: Designing for Mistakes; Chapter 4: Faster Learning: A Practical Road Map; Entrepreneurs: Expert Mistake Makers; To Err Can Be Divine; Disconfirming Evidence; Disciplined, Deliberate Mistake-Making; Performance versus Learning; Chapter 5: Deliberate Mistakes: Creating Portals of Discovery; Making Mistakes on Purpose; Challenging the Existing Model; The Paradox of Deliberate Mistakes; Practical Applications; Conditions That Favor Deliberate Mistakes; Exploring Your Willingness to Make Mistakes; Ready for Deliberate Mistakes?; An Open Mind Is a Fertile Mind.
- Column LegendChapter 6: Portfolio of Mistakes: Hedging Conventional Wisdom; The Benefits of a Portfolio; Part Three: Putting It All Together; Chapter 7: The Prepared Mind: Detecting Anomalies; A Nobel from the Trash; Michelangelo of the Microbes; From Epiphany to Utility; Flashes of Brilliance; Peripheral Vision; Epilogue: Musing About Mistakes; How Successful People View Mistakes; Courting Error and Mistake; In Conclusion; Appendix A: Einstein's 23 Mistakes; Appendix B: Expected Utility Analysis; Appendix C: Portfolio Justifications; Appendix D: How Your Mind Plays Tricks; Filtering; Distorted InferenceBolstering.