L'"eccellenza" tanto in voga [SGA].
Sendhil Mullainathan e Eldar Shafir: Scarcity, Times Books
Risvolto
Why do successful people get things done at the last minute? Why does
poverty persist? Why do organizations get stuck firefighting? Why do
the lonely find it hard to make friends? These questions seem
unconnected, yet Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir show that they
are all are examples of a mind-set produced by scarcity.
Drawing
on cutting-edge research from behavioral science and economics,
Mullainathan and Shafir show that scarcity creates a similar psychology
for everyone struggling to manage with less than they need. Busy people
fail to manage their time efficiently for the same reasons the poor and
those maxed out on credit cards fail to manage their money. The dynamics
of scarcity reveal why dieters find it hard to resist temptation, why
students and busy executives mismanage their time, and why sugarcane
farmers are smarter after harvest than before. Once we start thinking in
terms of scarcity and the strategies it imposes, the problems of modern
life come into sharper focus.
Mullainathan and Shafir discuss how
scarcity affects our daily lives, recounting anecdotes of their own
foibles and making surprising connections that bring this research
alive. Their book provides a new way of understanding why the poor stay
poor and the busy stay busy, and it reveals not only how scarcity leads
us astray but also how individuals and organizations can better manage
scarcity for greater satisfaction and success.
Psicologia
Eldar Shafir, coautore di uno studio sulla mentalità degli indigenti, dice come intervenire: «La pressione del bisogno provoca deficit cognitivi, va semplificata la burocrazia»
Massimo Piattelli Palmarini La Lettura
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