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Monday, 18 July 2011

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The Logic Of Failure



Author: Dietrich Dorner
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Publisher: Basic Books
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ISBN: 0201479486
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The Logic Of Failure: Recognizing And Avoiding Error In Complex Situations



Why do we make mistakes? Are there certain errors common to failure, whether in a complex enterprise or daily life? In this truly indispensable book, Dietrich Dörner identifies what he calls the “logic of failure”—certain tendencies in our patterns of thought that, while appropriate to an older, simpler world, prove disastrous for the complex world we live in now.The Logic Of Failure review. Working with imaginative and often hilarious computer simulations, he analyzes the roots of catastrophe, showing city planners in the very act of creating gridlock and disaster, or public health authorities setting the scene for starvationRead full reviews of the logic of failure - dorner, dietrich/ kimber, rita (trn)/ kimber, robert.

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Why do we make mistakes? Are there certain errors common to failure, whether in a complex enterprise or daily life? In this truly indispensable book, Dietrich Dorner identifies what he calls the 'logic of failure'--certain tendencies in our patterns of thought that, while appropriate to an older, simpler world, prove disastrous for the complex world we live in now. Working with imaginative and often hilarious computer simulations, he analyzes the roots of catastrophe, showing city planners in the very act of creating gridlock and disaster, or public health authorities setting the scene for sta

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The Logic of Failure : Paperback : The Perseus Books Group : 9780201479485 : 0201479486 : 04 Aug 1997 : our modern world, even though it was appropriate to older, simpler times. Working with imagination and often hilarious computer simulations, Dietrich Dorner provides a compass for intelligent planning and decision-making that can sharpen the skills of managers and policy-makers everywhere.



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Working with imaginative and often hilarious computer simulations, he analyzes the roots of catastrophe, showing city planners in the very act of creating gridlock and disaster, or public health authorities setting the scene for starvation. The Logic of Failure is a compass for intelligent planning and decision-making that can sharpen the skills of managers, policymakers and everyone involved in the daily challenge of getting from point A to point B.


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Thursday, 23 December 2010

Failure Is Not an Option ®

Failure Is Not an Option ®



Author: Alan M. Blankstein
Edition: Second Edition
Publisher: Corwin
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1412979234
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Failure Is Not an Option ®: 6 Principles for Making Student Success the ONLY Option



Five years, 200,000 readers, and one national award after the first edition, Blankstein documents how educators have closed gaps, turned schools around, and sustained overall success.Failure Is Not an Option ® review. Read full reviews of Failure Is Not An Option Tote Bags.

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In May 1961 President Kennedy set a goal for the nation: beat the Russians to the moon and do it within the decade. In July 1969 NASA met that goal. But no one ever defined what should happen next.

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Sunday, 20 June 2010

Drift into Failure Reviews

Drift into Failure



Author: Sidney Dekker
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Publisher: Ashgate
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ISBN: 1409422216
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What does the collapse of sub-prime lending have in common with a broken jackscrew in an airliner's tailplane? Or the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico with the burn-up of Space Shuttle Columbia? These were systems that drifted into failure.Drift into Failure review. While pursuing success in a dynamic, complex environment with limited resources and multiple goal conflicts, a succession of small, everyday decisions eventually produced breakdowns on a massive scale. We have trouble grasping the complexity and normality that gives rise to such large events. We hunt for broken parts, fixable properties, people we can hold accountable. Our analyses of complex system breakdowns remain depressingly linear, depressingly componential - imprisoned in the space of ideas once defined by Newton and DescartesRead full reviews of drift into failure book | sidney dekker hb 14094222.

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While pursuing success in a dynamic, complex environment with limited resources and multiple goal conflicts, a succession of small, everyday decisions eventually produced breakdowns on a massive scale. We have trouble grasping the complexity and normality that gives rise to such large events. We hunt for broken parts, fixable properties, people we can hold accountable. Our analyses of complex system breakdowns remain depressingly linear, depressingly componential - imprisoned in the space of ideas once defined by Newton and Descartes. The growth of complexity in society has outpaced our understanding of how complex systems work and fail. Our technologies have gotten ahead of our theories. We are able to build things - deep-sea oil rigs, jackscrews, collateralized debt obligations - whose properties we understand in isolation. But in competitive, regulated societies, their connections proliferate, their interactions and interdependencies multiply, their complexities mushroom. This book explores complexity theory and systems thinking to better understand how complex systems drift into failure. It studies sensitive dependence on initial conditions, unruly technology, tipping points, diversity - and finds that failure emerges opportunistically, non-randomly, from the very webs of relationships that breed success and that are supposed to protect organizations from disaster. It develops a vocabulary that allows us to harness complexity and find new ways of managing drift.

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Friday, 21 May 2010

Failure Is Not an Option Reviews

Failure Is Not an Option



Author: Alan M. Blankstein
Edition: Third Edition
Publisher: Corwin
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1452268274
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Failure Is Not an Option: 6 Principles That Advance Student Achievement in Highly Effective Schools



New case studies, videos, and field-tested processes help educators build high-performing leadership teams and create a school culture that sustains success for every student.Failure Is Not an Option review. Read full reviews of Failure Is Not An Option Tote Bags.

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Friday, 14 May 2010

Greed and Corporate Failure

Greed and Corporate Failure



Author: Stewart Hamilton
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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ISBN: 1403986363
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Greed and Corporate Failure: The Lessons from Recent Disasters



This is the book for anyone who wants to know what really lies behind the scandals and disasters of global business that have marred the first few years of the twenty-first century.Greed and Corporate Failure review. This book is not about stock market "bubbles". Nor is it about accounting scandals and craven auditors. Rather, it examines why companies fail. The authors postulate that the reasons companies fail are few, and all too commonRead full reviews of Greed and Corporate Failure: The Lessons from Recent Disasters.

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This book is not about stock market "bubbles". Nor is it about accounting scandals and craven auditors. Rather, it examines why companies fail. The authors postulate that the reasons companies fail are few, and all too common. Detailed studies of eight of the most famous recent failures identify six main causes: poor strategic decisions; over-expansion and ill-judged acquisitions; dominant CEOs; greed, hubris and a desire for power; failure of internal controls, and ineffective boards. The authors also set out what the prudent investor, board member or manager should be alert to but often is not.


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Wednesday, 18 November 2009

A Colossal Failure of Common Sense Reviews

A Colossal Failure of Common Sense



Author: Lawrence G. McDonald
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Crown Business
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0307588343
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A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers



One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now.A Colossal Failure of Common Sense review.  What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the straight answers—right from the belly of the beast.

In A Colossal Failure of Common Sense, Larry McDonald, a Wall Street insider, reveals, the culture and unspoken rules of the game like no book has ever done. The book is couched in the very human story of Larry McDonald’s Horatio Alger-like rise from a Massachusetts “gateway to nowhere” housing project to the New York headquarters of Lehman Brothers, home of one of the world’s toughest trading floors.
 
We get a close-up view of the participants in the Lehman collapse, especially those who saw it coming with a helpless, angry certaintyRead full reviews of A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers.

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Review òÀÜ...gives the readers a visceral sense of what it was like to work at Lehman Brothersand the fateful decisions and events that led to the companyòÀÙs death spiral...òÀÝ òÀÔMichikoKakutani, The New York Times òÀÜHighly readableòÀæA Colossal Failure of Common SenseTàlargely rings true. It expresses the anger that many former Lehman employees still feel toward Mr. Fuld. And it convincingly characterizes the investment bank as a house divided against itself, between the bears who had foreseen bubbles and the bulls who wrongly believed that this time was different.òÀÝ

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A Colossal Failure of Common Sense : Paperback : Random House USA Inc : 9780307588340 : 0307588343 : 12 Oct 2010 : McDonald, a former vice president at Lehman Brothers, offers an intimate look inside the mad house that Lehman became, and shows beyond a doubt that Lehman's top executives were totally out to lunch, allowing Lehman's risk profile to reach gargantuan proportions.

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 What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the straight answers—right from the belly of the beast.

In A Colossal Failure of Common Sense, Larry McDonald, a Wall Street insider, reveals, the culture and unspoken rules of the game like no book has ever done. The book is couched in the very human story of Larry McDonald’s Horatio Alger-like rise from a Massachusetts “gateway to nowhere” housing project to the New York headquarters of Lehman Brothers, home of one of the world’s toughest trading floors.
 
We get a close-up view of the participants in the Lehman collapse, especially those who saw it coming with a helpless, angry certainty. We meet the Brahmins at the top, whose reckless, pedal-to-the-floor addiction to growth finally demolished the nation’s oldest investment bank. The Wall Street we encounter here is a ruthless place, where brilliance, arrogance, ambition, greed, capacity for relentless toil, and other human traits combine in a potent mix that sometimes fuels prosperity but occasionally destroys it.
 
The full significance of the dissolution of Lehman Brothers remains to be measured. But this much is certain: it was a devastating blow to America’s—and the world’s—financial system. And it need not have happened. This is the story of why it did.


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Saturday, 14 November 2009

The Failure of Risk Management

The Failure of Risk Management



Author: Douglas W. Hubbard
Edition: 1
Publisher: Wiley
Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B0026LTMAU
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The Failure of Risk Management: Why It's Broken and How to Fix It



An essential guide to the calibrated risk analysis approach

The Failure of Risk Management takes a close look at misused and misapplied basic analysis methods and shows how some of the most popular "risk management" methods are no better than astrology! Using examples from the 2008 credit crisis, natural disasters, outsourcing to China, engineering disasters, and more, Hubbard reveals critical flaws in risk management methods–and shows how all of these problems can be fixed.The Failure of Risk Management review. The solutions involve combinations of scientifically proven and frequently used methods from nuclear power, exploratory oil, and other areas of business and government. Finally, Hubbard explains how new forms of collaboration across all industries and government can improve risk management in every field.

Douglas W. Hubbard (Glen Ellyn, IL) is the inventor of Applied Information Economics (AIE) and the author of Wiley's How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business (978-0-470-11012-6), the #1 bestseller in business math on AmazonRead full reviews of The Failure of Risk Management: Why It's Broken and How to Fix It.

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Review "òÀæshows how to identify and fix hidden problems in risk management. He uses real world examples to reveal serious problems in common quantitative and qualitiative approaches to risk analysis." (Book News, August 2009)From the Inside FlapThe 2008 credit crisis, terrorism, Katrina, computer hackers, and air travel disasters all have something in common-the methods used to assess and manage these risks are fundamentally flawed. If risks cannot be properly evaluated, risk management itself becomes the biggest risk. The Failure of Risk Management shows you how to identify and fix these

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The solutions involve combinations of scientifically proven and frequently used methods from nuclear power, exploratory oil, and other areas of business and government. Finally, Hubbard explains how new forms of collaboration across all industries and government can improve risk management in every field.

Douglas W. Hubbard (Glen Ellyn, IL) is the inventor of Applied Information Economics (AIE) and the author of Wiley's How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business (978-0-470-11012-6), the #1 bestseller in business math on Amazon. He has applied innovative risk assessment and risk management methods in government and corporations since 1994.

"Doug Hubbard, a recognized expert among experts in the field of risk management, covers the entire spectrum of risk management in this invaluable guide. There are specific value-added take aways in each chapter that are sure to enrich all readers including IT, business management, students, and academics alike"
—Peter Julian, former chief-information officer of the New York Metro Transit Authority. President of Alliance Group consulting

"In his trademark style, Doug asks the tough questions on risk management. A must-read not only for analysts, but also for the executive who is making critical business decisions."
—Jim Franklin, VP Enterprise Performance Management and General Manager, Crystal Ball Global Business Unit, Oracle Corporation.

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