Everything Is Obvious: *Once You Know the Answer (repost)
Everything Is Obvious: *Once You Know the Answer By Duncan J. Watts
Publisher: Cro..wn Busi..ness 2011 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 0385531680 | EPUB | 2 MB
Publisher: Cro..wn Busi..ness 2011 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 0385531680 | EPUB | 2 MB
Why is the Mona Lisa the most famous painting in the world? Why did Facebook succeed when other social networking sites failed? Did the surge in Iraq really lead to less violence? How much can CEO’s impact the performance of their companies? And does higher pay incentivize people to work hard?
If you think the answers to these questions are a matter of common sense, think again. As sociologist and network science pioneer Duncan Watts explains in this provocative book, the explanations that we give for the outcomes that we observe in life—explanation that seem obvious once we know the answer—are less useful than they seem.