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Ανταγωνιστές. ΙΚΑ. Φοροτεχνικά. Management - Διοίκηση. Time management - Διαχείριση χρόνου. ‘The Signal and the Noise,’ by Nate Silver. These triumphs have built Silver a loyal following among fantasy-baseball aficionados and the political buffs who flock to his New York Times blog, FiveThirty­Eight.

‘The Signal and the Noise,’ by Nate Silver

His signature approach is to concentrate enormous amounts of data on questions that lend themselves to pious blather. For example: television blowhards are fond of proclaiming that the winner of the Iowa caucuses enjoys a big bounce in the New Hampshire primary. Silver crunched numbers dating back to the 1970s and found that the bounce comes less from winning Iowa than from exceeding expectations there.

Silver’s method is completely straightforward: how else would you approach a question like this if not by considering every previous example? But the method is so empowering that it’s intoxicating — as if there’s no question he couldn’t answer with a big enough spreadsheet. Www.astynomia.gr/images/stories/2011/265panoyshs.pdf. Clayton Christensen - The 50 Most Influential Management Gurus. Harvard Business Review - Balanced Scorecard Report Readers.