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Tim Harford is an award-winning journalist, economist and broadcaster. He’s the author of the bestselling The Undercover Economist, The Undercover Economist Strikes Back, Adapt, and The Logic of Life. . Harford is currently a senior columnist at the Financial Times&nb

--Adrian Liang, The Book Review. An Best Book of October 2016: For those who think that a spick-and-span desk is an indication of high productivity, Harford's fascinating investigation of how disorder can spark innovation will open your eyes to all kinds of situations when tidiness is not a virtue. That alertness, in turn, fuels creativity, problem solving, better driving, resilience, innovation, and much more. From Brian Eno's fury-provoking Oblique Strategy cards that wrung a new sound from already talented musicians to how mixing differently talented teams can help them find solutions and keep their eye on the goal, Messy bolsters the theory that disorder creates heightened alertness. But if the

Another very well written, entertaining book from Tim Harford Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform our Lives (2016) by Tim Harford praises disorder in getting things done and being creative. Harford is an excellent economics writer and the presenter of More or Less, a number checking radio show and podcast.First Harfor. A great book about a big idea D. Morris From time to time I get a yen to live in an orderly world. Suddenly aghast at the junkheap of notes, papers, post-its and books that my desk has become, I tidy it up, binning some things and carefully sorting other items into files. Then I survey the neatly arran. "Entertaining and Convincing" according to Dr. Dominic Camus. Having loved Tim Harford's book 'Adapt' I was excited to get hold of 'Messy' as it looked like being more of the same. It doesn't disappoint. In a similar style it sets about convincing the reader of the central idea - that disordered or uncontrolled things can b

Tim Harford shows that if you want to be creative and resilient, you need a little more disorder in your world.” —Adam Grant, New York Times-bestselling author of Originals and Give and TakeFrom the award-winning columnist and author of the national bestseller The Undercover Economist comes a provocative big idea book about the genuine benefits of being messy: at home, at work, in the classroom, and beyond.Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives celebrates the benefits that messiness has in our lives: why it’s important, why we resist it, and why we should embrace it instead. From the music studio of Brian Eno to the Lincoln Memorial with Martin Luther King, Jr., from the board room to the classroom, messiness lies at the core of how we innovate, how we achieve, how we reach each other – in short, how we succeed. “Utterly fascinating. In Messy, you’ll learn about the unexpected connections between creativity and mess; understand why unexpected changes of plans, unfamiliar people, and unforeseen events can help generate new ideas and opportunities as they make you anxious and angry; and come to appreciate that