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UNINA9910456969803321 |
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Autore |
Alpaslan Can M (Can Murat) |
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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 |
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Stanford, California, : Stanford Business Books, An Imprint of Stanford University Press, 2011 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Collana |
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High reliability and crisis management |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Crisis management |
Conflict management |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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 |
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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 |
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UNISA996394513503316 |
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Autore |
Croft William <1678-1727.> |
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[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 |
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[London, : s.n., ca. 1704] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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D'UrfeyThomas <1653-1723.> |
CrossThomas <fl. 1632-1682.> |
NortonFrancis |
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Songs (High voice) with continuo |
Songs, English |
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Musica a stampa |
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Monografia |
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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. |
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