TEDxWarwick - Tim Harford - Management Lessons from the War in Iraq

Tim Harford is an economist who writes about economics theories behind our daily lives in books and as a Financial Times columnist. All of his books have been sold worldwide and widely translated, namely "The Undercover Economist" that has sold one million copies. He is the also only person who runs a problem page "Dear Economist" in Financial Times in which readers' problems are answered with the thought-provoking economic ideas. Tim currently presents the BBC radio series "More or Less" and contributes regularly to other radio, TV programmes and publications. His talk in TEDxWarwick this year focuses on the similarities between the War in Iraq and the organisation's top-down management.

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Science & Technology

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• TEDx
• TEDxWarwick
• TEDxWarwick 2011
• warwick university
• tim harford
• war
• iraq
• management
• lessons
• dear economist
• undercover
• economist

[TimTing]

at least there is no noisy intro and outro music...

[equsnarnd]

Reminds me of Xenophon, an ancient Greek Army officer who was with the Greek army when they were caught, 1000 miles behind Persian lines and all the upper Greek officers were killed. He told his men, some 10,000, that they were all Generals and he wanted to hear from everyone on how they were going to get out of the mess they were in. It worked. Decentralization works.

[ponchojapon]

As discent is important, I can say this is a poor talk. Spends most of the time to describe facts, and has no additional support to jump to simplistic conclusions. Why is fascinating by just describing facts? (beyond saving some time in reading the pile of information he is not giving anything else)

[ginalick]

Tim is a hero.....when is more or less coming back?

[portbury3031]

Moving and fascinating talk