Download or read book Swans Swine and Swindlers written by Can Alpaslan and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swans, Swine, and Swindlers argues that we must view crises as "messes": webs of complex and dynamically interacting ill-defined and/or wicked problems, conundrums, paradoxes, puzzles, crises; their solutions; and our conscious and unconscious assumptions, beliefs, emotions, and values. Working systematically with this concept, the text digs deeper into the causes, mitigation, and management of crises.
Download or read book Swans Swine and Swindlers written by Ian Mitroff and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 manage greed, hubris, arrogance, and narcissism), and Swindlers (the inability to confront, detect, and stop unethical and corrupt behavior). Working systematically with this concept and these classifications, authors Can M. Alpaslan and Ian I. Mitroff reveal that all crises are messes; one must learn to understand and manage them as such. They then provide tools and frameworks that readers can use to more effectively deal with the crises of today and tomorrow. Drawing on ideas from research areas as diverse as human development, philosophy, rhetoric, psychology, and high reliability organizations, this book aims to be the definitive guide for a new era in crisis management. Therefore, it is a must-have for practitioners, scholars, and students who study and deal in real-life crises.
Download or read book Managing Crises Before They Happen written by Ian I. Mitroff and published by AMACOM/American Management Association. This book was released on 2000 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Fact Sheet Shows executives & managers how to overcome an "it can't happen to us mentality" & prepare for crises, both large & small, before they happen.
Download or read book The Subjective Side of Science written by Ian I. Mitroff and published by Elsevier Science & Technology. This book was released on 1974 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dirty Rotten Strategies written by Ian I. Mitroff and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses how and why organizations and special interest groups of all kinds attempt to solve the wrong problems with intricate solutions.
Download or read book Crisis Leadership written by Ian Mitroff and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2004 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text presents a systematic, behavioral model that underlies crisis management, showing which personality functions are required for managing and preparing for major crises. The book discusses the extreme importance of Emotional IQ in handling, responding, and preparing for any crisis. Crisis Leadership presents the findings from new national surveys and new concrete, easy-to-understand models for implementing programs of proactive leadership. The combination of models-including a comprehensive look at what happens before, during, and after a crisis-creates a truly integrated and systematic approach.
Download or read book Why Some Companies Emerge Stronger and Better from a Crisis written by Ian I. Mitroff and published by AMACOM/American Management Association. This book was released on 2005 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authority in crisis management outlines seven distinct competencies an organization needs to handle crises effectively in order to come through the event with strength and confidence.
Download or read book The Unbounded Mind written by Ian I. Mitroff and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ground-breaking work, two pioneering thinkers in business studies pinpoint the profound changes they believe must occur in the way that business executives think, make decisions and solve problems if America is to remain competitive.
Download or read book Methodological Approaches to Social Science written by Ian I. Mitroff and published by San Francisco : Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1978 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on the methodology and underlying ideology and theory of the social sciences - describes research methods, style and content of inquiry in history, philosophy, psychology and sociology and application and value for solving scientific problems. Bibliography pp. 133 to 142 and diagrams.
Download or read book Crisis Management written by Ian I. Mitroff and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1993 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a survey of Fortune 1,000 companies as well as interviews with over 500 managers with crisis management experience, this book gives managers--at all levels and in every department--the practical, hands-on tools they need to determine where their organization is vulnerable and where they are prepared, who will be affected, and what strategies will work best for managing a crisis when it occurs.
Download or read book From School Delusion to Design written by Peter A Barnard and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how school organization by age (grade) alone, sets schools on a factory course that is harmful and ultimately self-defeating to all involved and to ecology. It returns us to three systems thinking concepts; purpose, measures, and method. The book explains why school managers and administrators are deluded by the system they operate and by how they understand complexity (the variety of value demand on the system, or what people need to be able to draw-down to make progress). This book returns us to the fundamental confusion of purpose. It involves revisiting our interpretation of human psychology and its application in the workplace—seeking out flaws in our organizational thinking and finding the best means of putting us back in touch with who we are—our thinking selves. The answer, or at least its start, is Vertical Tutoring. Vertical Tutoring (mixed-age groups) is the first domino of a redesign process. It changes all learning relationships and through personalization and it is this that drives the management task. It is the first domino needed for better systemic change and ensures that parents, students, and everyone employed by the school is involved in learning. For school leaders, parents, teachers and students, this means redesigning the way school management works, identifying values driven purposes from the customers’ perspective, and the roles stakeholders play in trying to make the work, work. In short, this book cuts through the dross of the great education debate and offers a better, more innovative, and safer way forward -and at no cost.
Download or read book The Essential Guide to Managing Corporate Crises written by Ian I. Mitroff and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Narratives of Crisis written by Matthew Seeger and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did you first hear about 9/11? What images come to mind when you think of Hurricane Katrina? How did your community react to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting? You likely have your own stories about these tragic events. Yet, as a society, we rarely stop to appreciate the narratives that follow a crisis and their tremendous impact. This book examines the fundamental role that narratives play in catastrophic events. A crisis creates a communication vacuum, which is then populated by the stories of those who were directly affected, as well as crisis managers, journalists, and onlookers. These stories become fundamental to how we understand a disaster, determine what should be done about it, and carry forward our lessons learned. Matthew W. Seeger and Timothy L. Sellnow outline a typology of crisis narratives: accounts of blame, stories of renewal, victim narratives, heroic tales, and memorials. Using cases to illustrate each type, they show how competing accounts battle for dominance in the public sphere, advancing specific organizational, social, and political changes. Narratives of Crisis improves our understanding of how consensus forms in the aftermath of a disaster, providing a new lens for comprehending events in our past and shaping what comes from those in our future.
Download or read book Strategic Foresight written by Patricia Lustig and published by Triarchy Press. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a practical (field) guide to foresight and foresight tools for leaders in business, the public sector and NGOs, to aid their practice in strategy, decision making and change.
Download or read book Intersectionality and Crisis Management written by Hillary J. Knepper and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intersectionality and Crisis Management: A Path to Social Equity aims to embed the social equity discourse into crisis management while exploring the potential of a new tool, the Integrative Crisis Management Model. Leaders and managers navigate a complex and networked environment of policy-making and action, frequently occurring in real time, under constant media exposure. The pervasive availability of this news on all platforms and devices produces a lingering anxiety about the inevitability of danger. Consequently, crisis affords a time-sensitive exploration of management practices and sheds a critical spotlight on deficiencies that may yield novel approaches to doing business. As the book engages contributing authors who are foremost in their field, it also includes practitioners, students, and junior scholars in a creative new discourse about equity. Bringing these diverse voices together in one volume presents a unique opportunity to generate new insights. Intersectionality provides a framework for understanding how categorizations of people drive social constructs of discrimination and oppression. Each chapter covers a different subject – exploring intersectionality in healthcare, nonprofit management, and human resources – and is accompanied by discussion questions. The book provides something for the classroom, for practitioners, and for scholars who want to include more intersectional thinking into their work. Chapters 1 and 6 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Download or read book The Power of Crisis Communication written by Janina Klingelhöfer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Janina Klingelhöfer deconstructs the development of the scientific field of crisis communication through the lens of the sociology of knowledge. To integrate both the social and intellectual dimensions of this scientific field, she unites the theoretical considerations of Bourdieu’s field analysis with the concepts of habitus and capital with a Foucauldian discourse analysis to conduct a comprehensive qualitative historiography. The study reflects on the beginnings of the field and its past developments to answer the main research question: How did the scientific field of crisis communication become what it is today?
Download or read book Fables and the Art of Leadership written by Ian I. Mitroff and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-05 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fred Rogers is one of the great icons of American culture and the values and philosophy for which he is famous have stood the test of time. Fables and the Art of Leadership brings those same values and philosophy to the workplace, where they're now needed more than ever. This unique and timely work is for everyone who aspires to become and be a better leader. Mister Rogers didn't expound abstract principles to help children face up to the problems they faced; instead, he created and told countless fables and stories. Ian and Donna Mitroff's book uses those fables to help managers master the most difficult challenges they face: achieving significant change; fostering creativity; curbing rudeness; promoting leadership, managing crises, and many more. It is their new interpretations for the workplace that will make Fables and the Art of Leadership a classic in business studies.
