04232nam 2200709Ia 450 991078587670332120200520144314.01-118-41671-61-283-59892-297866139113771-118-42030-6(CKB)2670000000246182(EBL)918221(OCoLC)815982274(SSID)ssj0000711010(PQKBManifestationID)11439652(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000711010(PQKBWorkID)10681810(PQKB)11112409(DLC) 2012024653(Au-PeEL)EBL918221(CaPaEBR)ebr10602109(CaONFJC)MIL391137(CaSebORM)9781118416716(MiAaPQ)EBC918221(EXLCZ)99267000000024618220120607d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBeating the global odds[electronic resource] successful decision-making in a confused and troubled world /Paul A. Laudicina1st editionHoboken, NJ John Wiley & Sonsc20121 online resource (225 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-118-34711-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Praise for Beating the Global Odds; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 1: Global Brain Freeze; More Has Become (Much) Less; Think Pinball, Not Roulette; Disorientation and Decision Analysis; Chapter 2: Fast and Fickle; Lumbering Giants; Watch Out for Those Tuning Out and Checking Out; Chapter 3: Rudderless World; Tea Party, Occupy Movements: Birds of a Feather?; Privatizing the Gains, Socializing the Losses; The Three Deficits; Inescapable Trilemma?; The Case for Values-Based Leadership; Chapter 4: Lighten the Load and Make It Sesame Street SimpleSesame Street SimpleCockpit Confusion; Chapter 5: Repair Your Social Fabric; The Three-Line Whip; The Pause Principle; All in the Family; Chapter 6: Don't Wait for the Next Big Thing; Innovation: Slowing Down or Speeding Up? (I Think the Latter); Knowledge Hatcheries; Offer a Prize; Fighting Complexity with Complexity; Coming Soon: Information Overload, Tamed and Ready to Serve You?; Chapter 7: Open the Aperture; Vary Your Information Diet; Be Wary of Conventional Wisdom and the Usual Experts; The Problem of Being Right Too Early; Tap into Remarkable People and PlacesChapter 8: Turning Pixels into a Clearer PicturePowerfully Imagined and Rigorously Researched: The Structure of Scenario Thinking; Counterfactuals and Other Futures Thinking; Envisioning the Future to Inform the Present; TOP GEAR; TERMINUS; FLATLINE; CONTROL-ALT-DELETE; The Coming Chinese Commonwealth?; Pulling It All Together and Getting Ready to Beat the Global Odds; Epilogue; Afterword; Selected Bibliography; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Index The Answer to Global Overload Contending with the 24/7 news cycle and an endless barrage of choices and information has stymied leadership and decision-making strategies among those at the top. But we all know, this is not a just a problem for the elite. The broad-based reaction to this chaotic, unmanageable assault has been to retrench, and to focus on immediate, controllable decisions. In the process, we lose sight of the horizon. More dangerous still, is the shift we've seen from value creation to wealth creation, where information technology 1.0 has enabled aStrategic planningOrganizational changeDecision makingChange (Psychology)Diffusion of innovationsStrategic planning.Organizational change.Decision making.Change (Psychology)Diffusion of innovations.658.4/03Laudicina Paul A1533768MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785876703321Beating the global odds3780888UNINA