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  • Audiobook

    Smart Thinking for Crazy Times

    The Art of Solving the Right Problems

    by Ian Mitroff ...
    Narrated by Efrem Zimbalist Jr ...

    Abridged

    1 hour 28 min

    Managers, organizations, and even whole societies repeatedly get trapped into solving the wrong problems. Their errors can be traced to one fundamental flaw: misdirected thinking. Leading business professor Ian Mitroff asserts that the ability to spot the right problems, frame them correctly, and implement appropriate solutions is the true competitive edge of a successful and prosperous ... Read more

    $22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Swans, Swine, and Swindlers

    Coping with the Growing Threat of Mega-Crises and Mega-Messes

    by Ian Mitroff, Can Alpaslan ...
    Series series High Reliability and Crisis Management
    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 ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Swans, Swine, and Swindlers

    Coping with the Growing Threat of Mega-Crises and Mega-Messes

    by Ian Mitroff, Can Alpaslan ...
    Series series High Reliability and Crisis Management
    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 ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

  • Why Some Companies Emerge Stronger and Better from a Crisis

    7 Essential Lessons for Surviving Disaster

    by Ian I. Mitroff ...
    Do your company and employees have the necessary "IQ" not only to withstand a crisis but also come through it with strength and confidence?Like many companies over the last few years, yours has probably done a great deal to reassess its physical, strategic, and financial vulnerabilities. However, there is a huge difference between business continuity planning and true crisis management. Ian ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Unbounded Mind

    Breaking the Chains of Traditional Business Thinking

    by Ian I. Mitroff, Harold A. Linstone ...
    Global markets, Japanese competition, the service economy, the sophisticated consumer--American business today faces challenges undreamed of just a few decades ago, and traditional approaches to corporate problems are becoming increasingly less effective. And yet, as the authors of The Unbounded Mind point out, MBA programs still preach--and thousands of American firms hold sacred--an antiquated ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Combatting Disruptive Change

    Beating Unruly Competition at Their Own Game

    by Ian I. Mitroff ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    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. Ian Mitroff outlines the protective actions business leaders must take to ensure their continued existence, providing a clear ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Technology Run Amok

    Crisis Management in the Digital Age

    by Ian I. Mitroff ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    The recent data controversy with Facebook highlights that the tech industry as a whole was utterly unprepared for the backlash it faced as a result of its business model of selling user data to third parties. Despite the predominant role that technology plays in all of our lives, the controversy also revealed that many tech companies are reactive, rather than proactive, in addressing crises.This ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Fables and the Art of Leadership

    Applying the Wisdom of Mister Rogers to the Workplace

    by Ian I. Mitroff, Donna Mitroff ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    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 ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Spirituality and Sustainability

    New Horizons and Exemplary Approaches

    Edited by Satinder Dhiman, Joan Marques ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book aims to examine sustainability and spirituality philosophically with ethics as the balancing force. The goal is to reveal the important intersection between sustainability and spirituality by using spirituality as the invisible guiding hand in the quest for sustainability. The editors and contributors examine old social and economics dilemmas from a new perspective in order to provide ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Socially Responsible Organization

    Lessons from COVID

    by Ian I. Mitroff ...
    Series series SpringerBriefs in Business
    This book explores the nature of the socially responsible organization, specifically the role of crisis management in creating a socially responsible organization. It applies the Myers-Briggs Personality Typology (MBPTI) and the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Framework to issues such as responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, regulation of tech companies, and infrastructure. Dr. Mitroff lists the major ... Read more

    Free

  • The Psychodynamics of Enlightened Leadership

    Coping with Chaos

    by Ian I. Mitroff, Ralph H. Kilmann ...
    Series series Management, Change, Strategy and Positive Leadership
    This open access book provides a comprehensive look at the pluses and minuses of leadership in times of an unparalleled crisis, such as the COVID-19 global pandemic. It examines the COVID-19 crisis in terms of psychodynamics, crisis management, and especially from the standpoint of complex, messy systems. It analyses how leaders need to think and act differently to cope better with—and potentially ... Read more

    Free

  • Techlash

    The Future of the Socially Responsible Tech Organization

    by Ian I. Mitroff, Rune Storesund ...
    Series series Management, Change, Strategy and Positive Leadership
    Technology has made human lives incomparably better. Civilization as we know it would utterly collapse without it. However, if not properly managed, technology can and will be systematically abused and misuse and thereby become one of the biggest threats to humankind. This open access book applies proactive crisis management to the management of technology organizations to make them more ... Read more

    Free