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Swans, Swine, and Swindlers : Coping with the Growing Threat of Mega-Crises and Mega-Messes.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Palo Alto :
Stanford University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.