1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910703379803321

Autore

Adedeji Adebayo

Titolo

Models used by the military services to develop budgets for activities associated with operational readiness [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : Congress of the United States, Congressional Budget Office, , [2012]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (29 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

FriskDaniel

TrunkeyDerek

Soggetti

United States Armed Forces Operational readiness

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Feb. 17, 2012).

"February 2012."

"Pub. no. 4187."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781476703321

Autore

Alpaslan Can M (Can Murat)

Titolo

Swans, swine, and swindlers [[electronic resource] ] : coping with the growing threat of mega-crises and mega-messes / / Can M. Alpaslan and Ian I. Mitroff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California, : Stanford Business Books, An Imprint of Stanford University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-8047-8108-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Collana

High reliability and crisis management

Altri autori (Persone)

MitroffIan I

Disciplina

658.4/77

Soggetti

Crisis management

Conflict management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Part I: Uncovering Assumptions; 1. A Crisis Is Not What We Have Been Led to Believe;  Every Crisis Is an Existential Crisis of Meaning; 2. What Is a Mess? The Fundamental Differences Between Exercises, Problems, and Messes; 3. All Crises Are Messes; 4. When Good Organizations Do Unwise, Immature, and Bad Things; 5. It's the Culture; Part II: Managing Assumptions; 6. Overcoming Mega-Denial; 7. Beyond Fear-Based Crisis Management; Part III: Applications; 8. The Art and Science of Messy Inquiry

9. Trust, Transparency, and Reliability: What Can the HROs Teach the Financial Sector?Afterword; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Swans, Swine, and Swindlers addresses a core, contemporary question:  What steps can we take to better anticipate and manage mega-crises, such as Haiti, Katrina, and 9/11?This book explores the concept of ""messes."" A mess is a web of complex and dynamically interacting, ill-defined, and/or wicked problems; their solutions; and our conscious and unconscious assumptions, beliefs, emotions, and values. The roots of messes can be classified as Swans (the inability to surface and test false assumptions and mistaken beliefs), Swine (the inability to confront and m