{"id":8163,"date":"2015-11-25T22:54:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T06:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=8163"},"modified":"2015-11-25T23:02:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T07:02:57","slug":"antifragility-panelwebinar-practice-beyond-the-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/antifragility-panelwebinar-practice-beyond-the-rhetoric\/","title":{"rendered":"Antifragility Panel\/Webinar: Practice Beyond the Rhetoric!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look for <a href=\"https:\/\/salhir.wordpress.com\/2015\/05\/17\/antifragility-panelwebinar-practice-beyond-the-rhetoric\/\" target=\"_blank\">audio links to webinar recordings in post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry clear\">\n<blockquote><p>In his book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Antifragile-Things-That-Disorder-Incerto\/dp\/0812979680\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cAntifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder\u201d<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fooledbyrandomness.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nassim Nicholas Taleb<\/a>\u2018s (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nntaleb\" target=\"_blank\">@nntaleb<\/a>) introduced the concept of antifragility.<\/p>\n<p>Appreciating this concept involves initially <em>recognizing it<\/em> and then <em>translating it into practice<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>First, Taleb distinguishes between the fragile, robust, and antifragile: \u201cthe fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn\u2019t care too much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Next, Taleb advances that \u201cby grasping the mechanisms of antifragility we can build a systematic and broad guide to non-predictive decision making under uncertainty in business, politics, medicine, and life in general.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the world continues to become increasingly interconnected and interdependent, <em>Black Swans<\/em> \u2014 large-scale unpredictable and irregular events of massive consequence \u2014\u00a0are necessarily becoming more prominent!<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the proliferation of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity, non-predictive decision making is quintessential \u2014 and individuals, teams &amp; groups, and organizations &amp; enterprises are embracing the quest for greater antifragility to realize greater <strong><em>employee\u00a0creativity\u00a0&amp; engagement<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and <strong><em>market innovation &amp; disruption<\/em><\/strong>!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look for audio links to webinar recordings in post. In his book \u201cAntifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder\u201d, Nassim Nicholas Taleb\u2018s (@nntaleb) introduced the concept of antifragility. Appreciating this concept involves initially recognizing it and then translating it into practice! First, Taleb distinguishes between the fragile, robust, and antifragile: \u201cthe fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[484,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antifragile","category-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8163"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8166,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8163\/revisions\/8166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}