The success equation : untangling skill and luck in business, sports, and investing / Michael J. Mauboussin.
By: Mauboussin, Michael J.
Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business Review Press, c2012Description: xi, 293 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781422184233 (alk. paper).Subject(s): Ability | Decision making | Fortune | Success in business | SuccessGenre/Form: Print books.DDC classification: 650.1
Contents:
Skill, luck, and three easy lessons -- Why we're so bad at distinguishing skill from luck -- The luck and skill continuum -- Placing activities on the luck-skill continuum -- The arc of skill -- The many shapes of luck -- What makes for a useful statistic? -- Building skill -- Dealing with luck -- Reversion to the mean -- The art of good guesswork.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-280) and index.
Skill, luck, and three easy lessons -- Why we're so bad at distinguishing skill from luck -- The luck and skill continuum -- Placing activities on the luck-skill continuum -- The arc of skill -- The many shapes of luck -- What makes for a useful statistic? -- Building skill -- Dealing with luck -- Reversion to the mean -- The art of good guesswork.