The Formula

This is not just an important but an imperative project . . . Barabasi is the person' Nassim Nicholas Taleb, bestselling author of The Black Swanb>The ground-breaking international bestseller that reveals the indisputable scientific laws that /b>b>can turn your achievements into success and how to use them to your own advantage./b>In The Formula, Barabasi, one of the world's leading experts on the science of networks, reveals the unspoken rules behind who truly gets ahead and why, and outlines the five laws that govern this phenomenon and how we can use them to our own advantage. Drawing on Big Data research that covers everyone from the ace fighter pilot The Red Baron to graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat; Miles Davis and his recording of 'Kind of Blue' to Marcel Duchamps and Tiger Woods, Barabasi, shows why success can come at any time, as long as we are persistent, why in successful teams one person gets the lion share of the credit and why the last interviewee almost always gets the job.Unveiling the scientific principles that drive success, and how to leverage them, Barabasi offers a new understanding of the very foundation of how people excel in today's society, and how to harness these principles for yourself.

Product details

• Authors: Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Albert-László Barabási, Barabasi Albert Las
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781509843541
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-4354-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 234 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Personal Success, SCIENCE / Cognitive Science, Popular psychology, Advice on careers and achieving success, Cognitivism, cognitive theory, Entrepreneurship / Start-ups