Black Box Thinking: The Surprising Truth About Success

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Retrieval of hope, retrieval of experience - not just a true sportsman's determination to retrieve success from the lessons of failure, but a true humanitarian's too.

That sounds simple, but this book illustrates how powerful a simple change in thinking can produce extraordinary outcomes, both good and bad. I've been passionate in doing something creative for a long time, be it an art, a creative web design of the sorts. Matthew Syed’s Black Box Thinking aims to address our tendency to airbrush over failure by implementing open-loop systems and mindsets to collect, examine and apply learnings from failure.It seems to me that the author successfully tells us that the combination of right mindset of failure and right system for turning failure into success is the secret of high performance. Redundancy/ margin of safety: in considering how to minimise the impact of failure as well as learning from it. With this, the author clearly stated that mistakes are essential and responsible for the direct improvement, and I have no qualms for that. niesprawdzone ideologie i dane obserwacyjne, często zmanipulowane tak, żeby pasowały do sformułowanych wcześniej wniosków".

Success is always the tip of an iceberg…Beneath the surface of success—outside our view, often outside our awareness—is a mountain of necessary failure.Połączenie doskonałego thrilleru z fascynującą analizą psychologiczną, socjologiczną, ekonomiczną, filozoficzną etc. You must be able to design a system to accomplish one purpose without knowing how a specific component of the whole in detail works. It is a cutting-edge approach to organisational psychology based upon the most basic scientific principle of all: we progress fastest when we face up to failure – and learn from it. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

It appears that healthcare industry was not open to mistakes that are happening inside especially if the case was life-threatening because the whole industry encourages 0% mistakes since they're dealing with life itself.Using gripping case studies, exclusive interviews and really practical takeaways, Matthew Syed - the award-winning journalist and best-selling author of Bounce - explains how to turn failure into success, and shows us how we can all become better Black Box Thinkers.

In its early days, 3M, the technology conglomerate, relied on a team of product developers for new ideas. Attention, it turns out, is a scarce resource: if you focus on one thing, you will lose awareness of other things. It is an interplay between the practical and the theoretical, between top-down and bottom-up, between creativity and discipline, between the small picture and the big picture.I love the real world examples and stories and it was fun to learn about the grit some people have had that have led them to the success they have achieved like David Beckham and James Dyson. If we edit out failure, if we reframe our mistakes, we are effectively destroying one of the most precious learning opportunities that exists. This brilliant book shows how true invention lies in the understanding and overcoming of these failures, which we must learn to embrace.