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‘Black Swan’ author Taleb to deliver MUFSO keynote speech

‘Black Swan’ author Taleb to deliver MUFSO keynote speech

NEW YORK —Nassim Nicholas Taleb, one of the country’s most creative, controversial and sought-after speakers will deliver a keynote address on Oct. 5 during the 50th annual Nation’s Restaurant News Multi-Unit Foodservice Operators, or MUFSO, conference in Dallas.

Author of the best-selling book “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable,” Taleb holds a unique view of events, saying: “The world is random, intrinsically unknowable. You will never be able to control randomness.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb, one of the country’s most creative, controversial and sought-after speakers will deliver a keynote address on Oct. 5 during the 50th annual Nation’s Restaurant News Multi-Unit Foodservice Operators, or MUFSO, conference in Dallas.

Taleb’s main premise, the impact of the highly improbable, is ideal for this year’s MUFSO theme “The Next 50. Are You Ready?” said NRN Publisher Tom Larranaga. —Nassim Nicholas Taleb, one of the country’s most creative, controversial and sought-after speakers will deliver a keynote address on Oct. 5 during the 50th annual Nation’s Restaurant News Multi-Unit Foodservice Operators, or MUFSO, conference in Dallas.

“We live in unpredictable times,” Larranaga said, “but Taleb argues persuasively that the world has always been unpredictable and is only becoming more so. The key is to build our businesses with the appropriate kind of risk management. By better understanding rare events, we prepare ourselves to act more effectively on common ones.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb, one of the country’s most creative, controversial and sought-after speakers will deliver a keynote address on Oct. 5 during the 50th annual Nation’s Restaurant News Multi-Unit Foodservice Operators, or MUFSO, conference in Dallas.

The “Black Swan” in the title of Taleb’s book, which was published in 2007, is a reference to the once common belief that all swans were white. This was shattered when the first black swan was sighted in Australia. “Every theory we have about the human world and about the future is vulnerable to the black swan, the unexpected event,” Taleb said. “We sail in fragile vessels across a raging sea of uncertainty. The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb, one of the country’s most creative, controversial and sought-after speakers will deliver a keynote address on Oct. 5 during the 50th annual Nation’s Restaurant News Multi-Unit Foodservice Operators, or MUFSO, conference in Dallas.

Taleb added, “I am interested in how to turn lack of information, lack of understanding and lack of knowledge into decisions.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb, one of the country’s most creative, controversial and sought-after speakers will deliver a keynote address on Oct. 5 during the 50th annual Nation’s Restaurant News Multi-Unit Foodservice Operators, or MUFSO, conference in Dallas.

Calling himself an essayist, belletrist, or fine writer, and researcher, the author said he is only interested in one topic – chance, particularly extreme and rare events, or the Black Swans. He is a distinguished professor of risk engineering at Polytechnic Institute of New York University, a visiting professor at the London Business School, and co-director of the Decision Science Laboratory. —Nassim Nicholas Taleb, one of the country’s most creative, controversial and sought-after speakers will deliver a keynote address on Oct. 5 during the 50th annual Nation’s Restaurant News Multi-Unit Foodservice Operators, or MUFSO, conference in Dallas.

Taleb is a member of the Derivatives Strategy Hall of Fame. He has worked for Union Bank of Switzerland, Credit Suisse First Boston, Banque Indosuez and CIBC Wood Gundy. —Nassim Nicholas Taleb, one of the country’s most creative, controversial and sought-after speakers will deliver a keynote address on Oct. 5 during the 50th annual Nation’s Restaurant News Multi-Unit Foodservice Operators, or MUFSO, conference in Dallas.

He holds a master’s in business administration from the Wharton School of Business and a Ph.D. from the University of Paris. —Nassim Nicholas Taleb, one of the country’s most creative, controversial and sought-after speakers will deliver a keynote address on Oct. 5 during the 50th annual Nation’s Restaurant News Multi-Unit Foodservice Operators, or MUFSO, conference in Dallas.

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