Product Description: This book is a critical examination of the main ideas regarding disruptive change and startups. It systematically lays out the full set of challenges and tasks one needs to master in order for existing organizations to weather severe change or make a startup successful...read more

Product Description: Everybody's Business is a succinct analysis of the factors that led to the founding of American business schools and why they are the way they are. Mitroff, Alpaslan, and O'Connor consider why current business schools do not give students the knowledge and the tools they need to deal with today's complex, messy problems and systems...read more

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There is a fundamental difference between business continuity planning and crisis management. Even a complete operational plan does little to prepare a company to come through a crisis with strength and confidence. According to Ian Mitroff, crises can (and will) now arise with unprecedented frequency, complexity, and destructive power, as what was once rare is now the norm: terrorism, cyberattacks, large-scale fraud, and kidnappings. This all-too-timely book presents 7 competencies that companies must develop in order to deal with what is now a virtual certainty. Mitroff outlines how to foster different "IQs," ranging from emotional resiliency and creative problem-solving to crucial political and social skills and more. Equally important is a blueprint for integrating these far-reaching ideals into daily practice, and finally moving beyond the crisis to embrace the world, however changed it may be. Filled with examples drawn from scores of interviews conducted both after 9/11 and during Mitroff's 25-year career in crisis management, this is a passionate, wise, and practical book that will indeed help organizations become stronger and better.

Product Description: The revolutionary concepts in ""12 Step Wisdom at Work"" have been developed by the internationally renowned Hazelden Foundation, one of the world's leading recovery institutions, specializing in change management and the treatment of drug and alcohol abuse. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: "From tragic accidents to public relations fiascos, we live in an increasingly crisis-ridden society. In fact, half of the major industrial accidents of the past century occurred in the last 20 years. Incidents such as Bhopal and the Exxon Valdez have become embedded in our consciousness, cultural icons of the worst sort...read more

A guide to critical thinking and corporate problem solving offers advice on avoiding misdirected thinking and the drain on resources caused by solving the wrong problem.

The population and technology explosions are shrinking the world to a system in which everything is interactive, forcing us to transcend traditional modes of thinking. In this book, the authors set forth the concept of multiple perspectives: technical, organizational, and personal. They begin the book with a multiple-perspective examination of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, a case that foreshadows the intensifying problem of managing hazardous technology in the coming decades. They then apply this approach, on a much larger scale, to the United States in the evolving global setting. Included in the discussion are issues such as the balance between short-term and long-term concerns and between individual and societal responsibilities. The interdependence and inseparability of the three perspectives is reflected in the focus on technological superiority, organizational rethinking, and imaginative personal leadership. This book will help managers and students in business, engineering, science, and policymaking break away from exclusive concern with the technical perspective and thus help prepare them for the challenges of a new era.

Product Description: This bold and thought-provoking challenge to American business explains how by breaking the frame of outdated organizational forms, businesses can break free of the systemic forces holding them back and face the complex ethical demands of business now and in the twenty-first century...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: The claims made for television when it was a fledgling industry in the early 1950s have virtually all proven false. TV was to be the great entertainer-educator, an electronic marvel that could reach into the lives of millions and, over time, elevate their tastes and sensibilities...read more

Product Description: Book by Mitroff, Ian I., Pauchant, Thierry

Product Description: Offers executives, managers, and consultants specific guidelines for developing crisis management programs to help prevent future crises and more effectively manage those that do occur. Based on five hundred interviews and case examples of innovative companies in the United States, Canada, and France...read more

Examines crisis management and mismanagement by corporations and their effects on the environment and health, using case studies of the Exxon Alaskan oil spills and other disasters

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