9798995120360 - the power of negative thinking: risk, resilience, and the engineering approach to a better life de mihaescu, dr. mircea (3 resultados)
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. What if negative thinking is the most rational thing you can do?The self-help industry has spent decades teaching you to think positively. Engineers who build aircraft, nuclear plants, and life-critical systems spend those same decades doing the opposite - systematically imagining every way…something can fail, so they can design against it before it does.The engineers have the better track record.The Power of Negative Thinking translates the reliability engineering toolkit - pre-mortems, fault trees, margins of safety, redundancy design, graceful degradation - into a practical framework for the decisions that actually determine how your life turns out: career pivots, financial commitments, health systems, relationships, and major transitions.Dr. Mircea Mihaescu draws on doctoral research in autonomic computing at IBM, twenty years of early-stage investment across fifty-plus companies, and his own hard-won experience applying these tools to the second half of a working life. The result is not a book about pessimism. It is a book about precision: how to make decisions that hold up when reality diverges from the plan - because it will.You will learn to: Run a pre-mortem on any major decision before you commit to itMap the fault tree - the chain of failures that leads to the outcome you most want to avoidBuild margins of safety into financial, health, and career systemsIdentify and eliminate single points of failure in your personal infrastructureDesign for graceful degradation so that setbacks become recoverable, not catastrophicThe reliability mindset is not a darker way to live. It is a more honest one - and the evidence from fifty companies, decades of engineering research, and the author's own life suggests it produces considerably better outcomes than hope alone. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
