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Antifragile de Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Antifragile

Autor Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 2013

Începem prin a demonta un mit periculos, adânc înrădăcinat în managementul modern: ideea că reziliența sau robustețea reprezintă idealul în fața crizei. În Antifragile, descoperim că a fi robust înseamnă doar a rezista șocurilor fără a te schimba, în timp ce adevăratul succes într-o lume imprevizibilă aparține sistemelor care devin mai bune atunci când sunt supuse stresului. Notăm cu interes cum autorul distilează experiența sa de trader și statistician pentru a ne arăta că, asemenea oaselor umane care se întăresc sub presiune, organizațiile și viețile noastre au nevoie de dezordine pentru a înflori.

Ca și Nassim Nicholas Taleb în The Black Swan, autorul distilează experiență reală în principii acționabile, însă aici trece de la analiza evenimentelor improbabile la oferirea unui manual de construcție a sistemelor imune la erorile de predicție. Dacă în The Bed of Procrustes am explorat limitele gândirii umane prin aforisme tăioase, Antifragile extinde aceste concepte în domenii pragmatice precum finanțele, medicina și politica. Este piesa centrală a seriei Incerto, care reunește toate investigațiile sale asupra opacității și riscului.

Recomandăm această lectură pentru modul onest în care atacă noțiunile de eficiență și datorie. Taleb nu se limitează la teorie; el introduce concepte precum „convex tinkering” — experimentarea descentralizată care depășește cercetarea dirijată. Tonul este autoritar, erudit și adesea iconoclast, combinând rigoarea matematică cu înțelepciunea antică. Cititorul va învăța de ce statul-oraș este superior statului-națiune și de ce scrierea unei scrisori de demisie înainte de angajare este un act de gestionare a riscului. Este, în esență, un ghid de supraviețuire și prosperitate într-o lume pe care nu o putem înțelege pe deplin.

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ISBN-13: 9780812979688
ISBN-10: 0812979680
Pagini: 544
Ilustrații: charts, graphs, illustrations
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Random House LLC US
Colecția Random House Trade Paperbacks

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Despre autor

Nassim Nicholas Taleb este un eseist libanezo-american, statistician matematic și fost trader de opțiuni, recunoscut la nivel mondial pentru analizele sale asupra riscului și probabilității. A servit ca profesor la universități de renume, fiind în prezent Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering la NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Este autorul celebrei serii Incerto, o lucrare filosofică în cinci volume despre incertitudine. Taleb a devenit o figură influentă după ce a prezis criza financiară din 2008, criticând metodele de gestionare a riscului din industria bancară. Opera sa îmbină rigoarea științifică cu experiența practică din piețele financiare.

Descriere scurtă

"Antifragile "is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don t understand. The other books in the series are "Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, "and "The Bed of Procrustes."
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of "The Black Swan" and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, reveals how to thrive in an uncertain world.
Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, and rumors or riots intensify when someone tries to repress them, many things in life benefit from stress, disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What Taleb has identified and calls antifragile is that category of things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish.
In "The Black Swan, "Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world. In "Antifragile, " Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary, and proposes that things be built in an antifragile manner. The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better and better.
Furthermore, the antifragile is immune to prediction errors and protected from adverse events. Why is the city-state better than the nation-state, why is debt bad for you, and why is what we call efficient not efficient at all? Why do government responses and social policies protect the strong and hurt the weak? Why should you write your resignation letter before even starting on the job? How did the sinking of the "Titanic" save lives? The book spans innovation by trial and error, life decisions, politics, urban planning, war, personal finance, economic systems, and medicine. And throughout, in addition to the street wisdom of Fat Tony of Brooklyn, the voices and recipes of ancient wisdom, from Roman, Greek, Semitic, and medieval sources, are loud and clear.
"Antifragile" is a blueprint for living in a Black Swan world.
Erudite, witty, and iconoclastic, Taleb s message is revolutionary: The antifragile, and only the antifragile, will make it.
Praise for "Antifragile"
Ambitious and thought-provoking . . . highly entertaining. "The Economist"
A bold book explaining how and why we should embrace uncertainty, randomness, and error . . . It may just change our lives. "Newsweek"
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Revelatory . . . Taleb] pulls the reader along with the logic of a Socrates. "Chicago Tribune"
Startling . . . richly crammed with insights, stories, fine phrases and intriguing asides . . . I will have to read it again. And again. Matt Ridley, "The Wall Street Journal"
Trenchant and persuasive . . . Taleb s insatiable polymathic curiosity knows no bounds. . . . You finish the book feeling braver and uplifted. "New Statesman"
Antifragility isn t just sound economic and political doctrine. It s also the key to a good life. "Fortune"
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At once thought-provoking and brilliant. " Los Angeles Times" "From the Hardcover edition.""

Notă biografică

Nassim Nicholas Taleb has devoted his life to problems of uncertainty, probability, and knowledge. He spent nearly two decades as a businessman and quantitative trader before becoming a full-time philosophical essayist and academic researcher in 2006. Although he spends most of his time in the intense seclusion of his study, or as a flâneur meditating in cafés, he is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University’s Polytechnic Institute. His main subject matter is “decision making under opacity”—that is, a map and a protocol on how we should live in a world we don’t understand.
 
Taleb’s books have been published in thirty-three languages.

Recenzii

What sometimes goes unsaid about Taleb is that he's a very funny writer. Taleb has a finely tuned BS detector, which he wields throughout the book to debunk pervasive yet pernicious ideas. . . . Antifragility isn't just sound economic and political doctrine. It's also the key to a good life
The hottest thinker in the world
A superhero of the mind
Wall Street's principal dissident
A guru for every would-be Damien Hirst, George Soros and aspirant despot
Nassim Taleb, in his exasperating but compelling book Antifragile, praises "things that gain from disorder" - people, policies and institutions designed to thrive on volatility, instead of shattering in the encounter with it
More than just robust or flexible, it actively thrives on disruption
Modern life is akin to a chronic stress injury. And the way to combat it is to embrace randomness in all its forms. . . Taleb is the great seer of the modern age
Something antifragile actively thrives under the impact of the unexpected...to embrace randomness rather than trying to control it
Enduring volatility is one thing; what about benefiting from it? That is what Taleb calls 'antifragility' and he thinks that it is the ultimate model to aspire to - for individuals, financial institutions, even nations. . . May well capture a quality that you have long aspired to without having quite known quite what it is. . . I saw the world afresh
Taleb takes on everything from the mistakes of modern architecture to the dangers of meddlesome doctors and how overrated formal education is. . . . An ambitious and thought-provoking read . . . highly entertaining
This is a bold, entertaining, clever book, richly crammed with insights, stories, fine phrases and intriguing asides. . . . I will have to read it again. And again
[Taleb] writes as if he were the illegitimate spawn of David Hume and Rev. Bayes, with some DNA mixed in from Norbert Weiner and Laurence Sterne. . . . Taleb is writing original stuff-not only within the management space but for readers of any literature-and . . . you will learn more about more things from this book and be challenged in more ways than by any other book you have read this year. Trust me on this

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Tough times don't last. Tough people do.
In The Black Swan, Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world. Here Taleb stands uncer­tainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary. The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. The resil­ient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better and better.
Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, many things in life benefit from stress, disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What Taleb has identified and calls antifragile are things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish.

Antifragile is a blueprint for living in a Black Swan world. Erudite, witty, and iconoclastic, Taleb's message is revolutionary: the antifragile, and only the antifragile, will make it.
'The hottest thinker in the world' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times