The success equation : untangling skill and luck in business, sports, and investing /

Mauboussin, Michael J., 1964-

The success equation : untangling skill and luck in business, sports, and investing / Michael J. Mauboussin. - Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business Review Press, (c)2012. - 1 online resource (xi, 293 pages) : illustrations.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: Sorting the sources of success -- Skill, luck, and three easy lessons -- Why we're so bad at distinguishing skill from luck -- The luck-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.



9781422184240


Success.
Success in business.
Ability.
Fortune.
Decision making.


Electronic Books.

BF637 / .S833 2012