1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456969803321

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

Electronic books.

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



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996394513503316

Autore

Croft William <1678-1727.>

Titolo

[Ah how sweet are the cooling breeze] [[electronic resource] /] / Words made by Mr. Tho: D'urfey, to a tune of Mr. William Croft's, and exactly engrav'd by Tho: Cross

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[London, : s.n., ca. 1704]

Descrizione fisica

1 score ([1] leaf)

Altri autori (Persone)

D'UrfeyThomas <1653-1723.>

CrossThomas <fl. 1632-1682.>

NortonFrancis

Soggetti

Songs (High voice) with continuo

Songs, English

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Musica a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Song for high voice and continuo (unfigured bass); with a version for the flute.

Title from first line of song.

Engraved throughout.

In: A collection of songs by severall masters / [collected by] Francis Norton.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018