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The success equation : untangling skill and luck in business, sports, and investing / Michael J. Mauboussin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business Review Press, c2012.Description: xi, 293 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781422184233
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 650.1 23
LOC classification:
  • BF637.S8 M341 2012
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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BF637 S8 I66 1995 Explore the frontiers of your mind / BF637.S8 K243 2013 The art of deliberate success : BF637.S8 K243 2013 The art of deliberate success : BF637.S8 M341 2012 The success equation : BF637.S8 .Q11 2006 Menyingkap rahsia kejayaan / BF637.S8 R534 1995 Notes from a friend : BF637 .S8 R556 1995 Not from a friend /

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.

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