Product Description: The reality of everyday organizational life is that it is filled with uncertainty, contradictions and paradoxes. Yet leaders and managers are expected to act as though they can predict the future and bring about the impossible: that they can transform themselves and their colleagues, design different cultures, choose the values for their organization, be innovative, control conflict and have inspiring visions...read more

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Product Description: Prospect Theory: For Risk and Ambiguity provides the first comprehensive and accessible textbook treatment of the way decisions are made both when we have the statistical probabilities associated with uncertain future events (risk) and when we lack them (ambiguity)...read more

Product Description: Nuclear power plants, new vaccines and drugs, pesticides designed to improve agricultural production, and a plethora of other technological advances hold great promise of improving the quality of human life, but also pose great risks to human well-being...read more

Product Description: Your business reputation can take years to build—and mere minutes to destroy The range of business threats is evolving rapidly but your organization can thrive and gain a competitive advantage with your business vision for enterprise risk management...read more

Product Description: This volume offers a description and analysis of subtle suicide―a psychological condition whose victims don't care if they live or die, and thus act in self-defeating, self-damaging ways.• Two distinguished authors, who developed the clinical concept of subtle suicide• Dozens of case studies based on actually psychotherapy clients diagnosed as suffering from subtle suicide• Biographical sketches of well-known people who exhibited subtle suicide behavior, including Marilyn Monroe, Anna Nicole Smith, Jim Morrison, and Evel Knievel• An extensive bibliography of print and online resources on a full range of topics related to subtle suicide and conditions that feed into i...read more

Product Description: This text was developed for the AAPM 2011 Summer School in Burnaby, British Columbia. The focus of the summer school is to: (a) understand the potential sources of dosimetric uncertainties in radiotherapy; (b) evaluate the impact of these uncertainties on the accuracy and conformity of dose delivered to patients; (c) understand strategies for mitigating these uncertainties, and (d) understand the impact of these uncertainties on QA/QM...read more

Product Description: �This is a major, and deeply thoughtful, contribution to understanding uncertainty and risk. Our world and its unprecedented challenges need such ways of thinking! Much more than a set of contributions from different disciplines, this book leads you to explore your own way of perceiving your own area of work...read more

Product Description: Uncertainty in Entrepreneurial Decision Making fills an existing gap in understanding three key concepts of business management: entrepreneurship, uncertainty, and strategy. By extending the impact of uncertainty on entrepreneurship and the role of strategy in reducing uncertainty, Petrakis and Konstantakopoulou emphasize that uncertainty can be converted into creative advantage...read more

Product Description: This volume integrates scholarly work on disclosure and uncertainty with the most up-to-date, cutting edge research, theories, and applications. Uncertainty is an ever-present part of human relationships, and the ways in which people reduce and/or manage uncertainty involves regulating their communication with others through revealing and concealing information...read more

Product Description: Along with the extraordinary growth in the derivatives market over the last decade, the impact of model choice, and model parameter usage, has become a major source of valuation uncertainty. This book concentrates on equity derivatives and charts, step by step, how key assumptions on the dynamics of stocks impact on the value of exotics...read more

Product Description: Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History suggests a unique approach to the inner life and its ordinary pains. Francis O'Gorman charts the emergence of our contemporary idea of worry in the Victorian era and its establishment, after the First World War, as a feature of modernity...read more