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In his provocative recent book Why Most Things Fail, the economist Paul Ormerod calls on planners and executives to face what he calls the last taboo in modern commercial and public policy - the predominance of failure. Companies and governments, argues Mr Ormerod, pretend that they are more successful than they are. Both public and private sectors promote planning, strategies, targets and monitoring, even though they may not work. In fact, says Mr Ormerod, these approaches are wishful thinking. In practice, human behaviour is harder to predict and the world more complicated than policy makers pretend. To succeed, says Mr Ormerod, it is better to be flexible and innovative - but even these are not guarantees of success. In the end, as his title implies, a lot of things just fail