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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786883603321

Autore

Kusek Jody Zall <1952->

Titolo

Fail safe management : five rules to avoid project failure / / Jody Zall Kusek, Marelize Gorgens Prestidge, and Billy C. Hamilton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington DC : , : The World Bank, , [2013]

ISBN

0-8213-9897-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 75 pages 24 cm)

Altri autori (Persone)

PrestidgeMarelize GoĢˆrgens

HamiltonBilly C

Disciplina

658.4/04

Soggetti

Project management

Business failures

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.

Sommario/riassunto

The decision to look at failures for answers is a bold one. Policy makers, planners and implementers have a tendency to look through prisms of success in framing working policies, programs and results when justifying them. Despite this, we still tend to address failures indirectly by looking at risk, critical success factors, unintended outcomes or consequences, and negative impacts to name a few. As the authors say, 'while success is desirable and we plan for it, failures are inevitable and we seldom plan to mitigate them.' The authors have clearly emphasized the need to look at failures in a