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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, (c)2012.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 293 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781422184240
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BF637 .S833 2012
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Contents:
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.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction BF637.8 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn865508493

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.

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