Londres, Inglaterra : Little, Brown, c2016.

327 p. ; 24 cm.

Introduction. -- 1. Creativity. -- Bowie, Eno and Darwin: how frustration and distraction help us solve problems in art, science and life. -- 2. Collaboration. -- Paul Erdős and the Robberts Cave: why tidy teams have more fun but messy teamwork gets more done. -- 3. Workplaces. -- Where Steve Jobs went wrong and why it's nobody else's business whether you tidy your desk. -- 4. Improvisation. -- Martin Luther King, the helpdesk and the unexpected benefits of letting go of the script. -- 5. Winning. -- Bezos, Rommel, Trump: how to use mess as a weapon in business, politics and war. -- 6. Incentives. -- The Prime Minister and the paramedic: the pitfalls of imposing tidy targets on a messy world. -- 7. Automation. -- Flight 447 and the Jennifer unit: when human messiness protects us from computerised disaster. -- 8. Resilience. -- Broken windows, stomach ulcers and the dangerous belief that cleanliness is next to godliness. -- 9. Life. -- Franklin, Schwarzenegger and the genius who hacked OkCupid: why we should value mess in our inbox, our conversations and our children's play. -- Acknowledgments. -- Notes. -- Index. -- About the author. --

Tomado de la pasta: "Messy celebrates the benefits that messiness has in our lives: why it's important, why we resist it and why we should embrace it instead. Drawing from research in neuroscience, psychology and social science, as well as captivating examples of real people doing extraordinary things, Tim Harford explains that the human qualities we value -creativity, responsiveness, resilience- are integral to the disorder, confusion and disarray that produce them. From the music studio of Brian Eno to the Lincoln Memorial with Martin Luther King Jr, from the boardroom to the classroom, messiness lies at the core of how we innovate, how we achieve, how we reach each other -in short, how we succeed."

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