Black Box Thinking

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NON-FICTION
World John Murray (Ed. Nick Davies)
2015

By Matthew Syed Film Rights

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In The Precision-Guided Missile, Matthew Syed, award-winning Times
information
columnist and bestselling author of Bounce: The Myth of Talent and the
Power of Practice, reveals the secret of high performing individuals and Audio Rights
organisations. He will reveal that this has little to do with intelligence, clever
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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
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traumatic experiences to shape future success.
Alice Lutyens.

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.