Blogs1 - 10 of 56 recent posts for tag:"Tim Harford"
08
Feb
2012
Ensayo y error: buena practica o reflejo de inexperiencia

2 days ago by Carlos Rosales

Muchos Gerentes de TI, así como ejecutivos de negocios tienen la percepción que ensayo y error refleja inexperiencia inaceptable tanto en empleados como en proveedores, de hecho, yo era uno de los que pregonaban esta filosofía, hasta que experiencias, tanto personales como profesionales, me demostra ...

AxionTI - blog.axionti.com

30
Jan
2012
Aaron Brown – Fly By Wire Risk

11 days ago by Neil McGovern, Director of Marketing

Last week (Jan. 25) at the Harvard Club in New York Aaron Brown, author of Red-Blooded Risk shared some of his thoughts on risk management at a high level by focusing on an aspect of risk management that does not get enough visibility: the risk introduced by systems that are meant to reduce risk. I ...

Trading & Risk Technology - blogs.sybase.com/tradingandrisk · 3 references

10
Jan
2012
Síndrome de dios

31 days ago by Bianka Hajdu

Video historias

Llegué a la charla TED de Tim Harford el domingo por la mañana al repasar los enlaces recomendados de Quantified self. Está relacionada con su nuevo libro — Adapt: Why success always starts with failure. En él, argumenta que para solucionar problemas complejos, el método adaptativo de prueba–error, ...

Vapor de hojalata - biankahajdu.com · Rank: 64,806 · 20 references

28
Dec
2011
Books of the Year

44 days ago by Philanthrocapitalism

If you need proof that philanthrocapitalism matters more than ever, look no further than the large number of books touching on effective giving and social change that have been published this year. Excluding our own contribution, The Road From Ruin (published in paperback this year in both Britain a ...

Philanthrocapitalism - philanthrocapitalism.net · Rank: 186,420 · 111 references

15
Dec
2011
online business: Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games // videogames

57 days ago by jds

Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games List Price: $18.00 List Price: $18.00 Your Price: $8.25- From EverQuest to World of Warcraft, online games have evolved from the exclusive domain of computer geeks into an extraordinarily lucrative staple of the entertainment industry. Peopl ...

Welcome To TriCircle Marketing - tricirclemarketing.com

14
Dec
2011
Looking for the New Winning Formula for Fundraising.

58 days ago by Rob

I was thinking to myself today as I considered the Queen’s coming Diamond Jubilee here in the UK, that out of the pomp and ceremony that we all see and experience, it is little known that as a result of the jubilee lots of small charitable organisations get to enjoy a pot of money that [...]

Robert Strobel - A ... - robert-strobel.com · 2 references

Looking for the New Winning Formula for Fundraising.

58 days ago by Rob

I was thinking to myself today as I considered the Queen’s coming Diamond Jubilee here in the UK, that out of the pomp and ceremony that we all see and experience, it is little known that as a result of the jubilee lots of small charitable organisations get to enjoy a pot of money that [...]

Robert Strobel - A ... - robert-strobel.com · 2 references

13
Dec
2011
Tim Harford: Trial, error and the God complex

60 days ago by Get Ahead

Economics writer Tim Harford studies complex systems — and finds a surprising link among the successful ones: they were built through trial and error. In this sparkling talk from TEDGlobal 2011, he asks us to embrace our randomness and start making better mistakes.

Get Ahead's Blog - getaheadblog.wordpress.com · Rank: 177,105 · 10 references

Evolution is smarter than we are

60 days ago by CCz

Video Karl Sims

"As the biochemist Leslie Orgel famously remarked, ‘ Evolution is cleverer than you are’, meaning that when an evolutionary process is let loose upon a problem, it will often find solutions that no human designer would have dreamed of. But there is an unhelpful corollary to Orgel’s maxim: if the pro ...

Balanced Scorecard - balancedscorecard.blogspot.com · Rank: 18,573 · 30 references

12
Dec
2011
The Best Books of 2011

60 days ago by Steve

International business practitioners faced unprecedented opportunities and challenges in 2011. In a year that ushered in the Arab Spring and a fracturing of the Eurozone, the world grew more complex, interdependent and fragile. Yet societies are demonstrating unexpected capacities for resilience and ...

Touch Points by Steve ... - ospreyvision.com/blog · 6 references

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