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



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Autore: Alpaslan Can M (Can Murat) Visualizza persona
Titolo: Swans, swine, and swindlers : coping with the growing threat of mega-crises and mega-messes / / Can M. Alpaslan and Ian I. Mitroff Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Stanford, California, : Stanford Business Books, An Imprint of Stanford University Press, 2011
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (232 p.)
Disciplina: 658.4/77
Soggetto topico: Crisis management
Conflict management
Altri autori: MitroffIan I  
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
Titolo autorizzato: Swans, swine, and swindlers  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8047-8108-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910814710303321
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Serie: High reliability and crisis management.