Black Box

Black Box Thinking BOOK NON-FICTION World John Murray (Ed. Nick Davies) 2015

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By Matthew Syed BOOKS Jonny Geller, +44 (0)20 7393 4357,

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In The Precision-Guided Missile, Matthew Syed, award-winning Times columnist and bestselling author of Bounce: The Myth of Talent and the Power of Practice, reveals the secret of high performing individuals and organisations. He will reveal that this has little to do with intelligence, clever planning or refined strategies, and everything to do with a revolution in our attitude to failure, and a sophisticated way of wielding our most difficult and traumatic experiences to shape future success. This journey will take us to some compelling destinations. We meet the victim of a miscarriage of justice and a head-teacher who introduced Failure Week into her school. We hear about the unconventional childhood of David Beckham and visit a velodrome in Manchester where a spectacular crash helped to create one of the world’s most successful sports teams. We see how a new approach to high-tech start-ups, based on the power of failure, has radical implications for military strategy in the Middle East. Weaving insights from complexity theory, evolutionary biology and behavioral economics with vivid stories and counter-intuitive experiments, this book will challenge the way we see the world. It will appeal to parents, managers, students, teachers and anyone else looking for an edge in performance, and who want to glimpse a radical new picture of how success happens.

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