Can we exploit the fact that life is unpredictable, chaotic, full of shocks and disasters? Trader-turned-scholar Nassim Nicholas Taleb is based at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University and ...

We all know what “fragile” means. But what is the opposite of fragile? If you are like me, your instinctive response would be “robust” or perhaps “durable.” But you would be wrong. Something that is ...

This is what we hear about the banking system, the financial crisis. You're arguing that a robust or an antifragile system is capable of seeing this part of the system being cancered and learning from ...

I recently read Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb and have been thinking about how antifragile theory applies to building and running a business. Taleb’s concept of ...

In a year that will undoubtedly go down as among the most disruptive in history, social distancing isn’t the only form of isolation supply-chain leaders have had to practice. In the face of a global ...

Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s 2007 book “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable,” detailed the impossibility of predicting the future, which jerks forward by way of massive changes such as the ...

Scholus Interruptus: Making systems of learning antifragile Tom Haymes May 13, 2020 Examining possibilities for synchronous and asynchronous learning could help institutional leaders better frame ...

Fragile systems are those that can be destroyed by any negative change. Robust systems deal with good and bad changes equally. Antifragile systems benefit from positive and negative environmental ...

You may already know all about what author Nassim Nicholas Taleb calls "Black Swan" events -- the game-changing and utterly unpredictable happenings that shape the world around us. From 9/11 and ...