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Crisis-Ready Teams - Data-Driven Lessons From Aviation, Nuclear Power, Emergency Medicine, And Mine Rescue

by Mary Waller e Seth Kaplan

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 Prepare any team for peak performance when crisis comes.Crisis-Ready Teams explains how any team, and any team leader, in any industry or sector, can prepare in advance to manage crises that suddenly pull people together to address high-magnitude events that could seriously harm their organizations. The book is based on extensive, unprecedented research on crisis team dynamics, key success behaviors, and why some teams perform so much better than others. Leading scholars Mary J. Waller and Seth A. Kaplan recorded and statistically analyzed audio and video recordings of hundreds of hours of crisis simulations involving flight crews, nuclear power plant control rooms, mine rescues, emergency room doctors and nurses, etc. Based on this empirical research, and other academic literature on how teams perform in crises, the authors show how crisis teams and leaders can cement crucial behaviors through attention to team composition and communication, especially in the first few minutes of a crisis. The book provides a valuable framework and research data for scholars studying crises and teams in organizations. It is also appropriate for MBA or executive education instruction on crisis management and leadership.
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Organizing For Reliability - A Guide For Research And Practice

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 Increasingly, scholars view reliability—the ability to plan for and withstand disaster—as a social construction. However, there is a tendency to evoke this concept only in the face of catastrophes, such as the British Petroleum oil spill or the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. This book frames reliability as a fundamental issue in the study of organizations—one that can also improve day-to-day operations.Bringing together a diverse cast of contributors, it considers how we can account for the ability of some organizations to maintain high reliability and what we can learn from them. The chapters distinguish reliability from related lines of inquiry; take stock of relevant research from different disciplinary perspectives; highlight implications for practice; and identify directions, questions, and priorities for future research. The first of its kind in over twenty years, this volume delivers a dynamic base of shared knowledge and an integrative research agenda at a time when organizational reliability has never been so important.
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Swans, Swine, And Swindlers - Coping With The Growing Threat Of Mega-Crises And Mega-Messes

by Can Alpaslan e Ian Mitroff

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 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.
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Social Roots Of Risk - Producing Disasters, Promoting Resilience

by Kathleen Tierney

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 Rather than acts of God or random acts of nature, The Social Roots of Risk argues that hazards, disasters, and crises of all sorts are produced by the social order itself-that the routine activities of institutions, organizations, and groups invite risk into our lives and put us in harms way.
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Reliability And Risk - The Challenge Of Managing Interconnected Infrastructures

by Emery Roe e Paul Schulman

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 The safe and continued functioning of critical infrastructures—such as electricity, natural gas, transportation, and water—is a social imperative. Yet the complex connections between these systems render them increasingly precarious. Furthermore, though we depend so heavily on interconnected infrastructures, we do not fully understand the risks involved in their failure.Emery Roe and Paul R. Schulman argue that designs, policies, and laws often overlook the knowledge and experiences of those who manage these systems on the ground—reliability professionals who have vital insights that would be invaluable to planning. To combat this major blind spot, the athors construct a new theoretical perspective that reveals how to make sense of complex interconnected networks and improve reliability through management, regulation, and political leadership. To illustrate their approach in action, they present a multi-year case study of one of the world''s most important "infrastructure crossroads," the San Francisco Bay-Delta. Reliability and Risk advances our understanding of what it takes to ensure the dependability of the intricate—and sometimes hazardous—systems on which we rely every day.
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Narratives Of Crisis - Telling Stories Of Ruin And Renewal

by Matthew Seeger e Timothy L. Sellnow

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 This book develops a typology of crisis narratives (accounts of blame, stories of renewal, victim narratives, heroic tales, and memorials), that provide an organizing framework for analyzing crises and understanding how competing stories battle for dominance in the wake of a disaster.
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Learning From The Global Financial Crisis - Creatively, Reliably, And Sustainably

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 This volume furnishes insights about the financial crisis and how to move beyond it from the perspectives of aesthetic management, high reliability and crisis management, and sustainability science.
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Leadership Dispatches - Chile''S Extraordinary Comeback From Disaster

by Erwann Michel-Kerjan, Howard Kunreuther e Michael Useem

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 On February 27, 2010, Chile was rocked by a violent earthquake five hundred times more powerful than the one that hit Haiti just six weeks prior. The Chilean earthquake devastated schools, hospitals, roads, and homes, paralyzing the country for weeks and causing economic damage that was equal to 18 percent of Chile''s GDP. This calamity hit just as an incumbent political regime was packing its bags and a new administration was preparing to take office. For most countries, it would have taken years, if not decades, to recover from such an event. Yet, only one year later, Chile''s economy had reached a six percent annual growth rate.In Leadership Dispatches, Michael Useem, Howard Kunreuther, and Erwann Michel-Kerjan look at how the nation''s leaders—in government, business, religion, academia, and beyond—facilitated Chile''s recovery. They attribute Chile''s remarkable comeback to a two-part formula consisting of strong national leadership on the one hand, and deeply rooted institutional practices on the other. Coupled with strategic, deliberative thinking, these levers enabled Chile to bounce back quickly and exceed its prior national performance. The authors make the case that the Chilean story contains lessons for a broad range of organizations and governments the world over. Large-scale catastrophes of many kinds—from technological meltdowns to disease pandemics—have been on the rise in recent years. Now is the time to seek ideas and guidance from other leaders who have triumphed in the wake of a disaster. In this vein, Leadership Dispatches is both a remarkable story of resilience and an instructive look at how those with the greatest responsibility for a country, company, or community should lead.
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Community At Risk - Biodefense And The Collective Search For Security

by Thomas D. Beamish

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 Community at Risk examines civic response to the federal government's plans to build biodefense labs at three universities following the Anthrax attacks in 2001. Thomas D. Beamish's account affirms the importance of local political dynamics in shaping public perceptions of risk and its management.
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Reliability And Risk - The Challenge Of Managing Interconnected Infrastructures

by Emery Roe e Paul Schulman

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Crisis-Ready Teams - Data-Driven Lessons From Aviation, Nuclear Power, Emergency Medicine, And Mine Rescue

by Mary Waller e Seth Kaplan

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Organizing For Reliability - A Guide For Research And Practice

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After The Revolution - Youth, Democracy, And The Politics Of Disappointment In Serbia

by Jessica Greenberg

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Photography For Everyone - The Cultural Lives Of Cameras And Consumers In Early Twentieth-Century Japan

by Kerry Ross

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The Emotional Logic Of Capitalism - What Progressives Have Missed

by Martijn Konings

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 While many critiques of money and the market focus on its rationalizing and utilitarian logic, this book argues that the operation of capitalist economy centrally involves the production of new sources of faith and enchantment.
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Coercing Compliance - State-Initiated Brute Force In Today'S World

by Robert Mandel

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Isolate Or Engage - Adversarial States, Us Foreign Policy, And Public Diplomacy

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Leadership Dispatches - Chile'S Extraordinary Comeback From Disaster

by Erwann Michel-Kerjan, Howard Kunreuther e Michael Useem

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Remaking College - The Changing Ecology Of Higher Education

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Making History In Iran - Education, Nationalism, And Print Culture

by Farzin Vejdani

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 This book examines the institutions, associations, and networks through which contending visions of history were produced and circulated in Iran during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
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The River People In Flood Time - The Civil Wars In Tabasco, Spoiler Of Empires

by Terry Rugeley

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 The River People in Flood Time explores how a poor and deeply fragmented province managed to overcome one foreign intervention after another.
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Servants Of Globalization - Migration And Domestic Work, Second Edition

by Rhacel Parrenas

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 Fully revised and expanded, Servants of Globalization remains the defining work on the international division of reproductive labor.
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Strategy In Asia - The Past, Present, And Future Of Regional Security

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Community At Risk - Biodefense And The Collective Search For Security

by Thomas D. Beamish

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 Community at Risk examines civic response to the federal government's plans to build biodefense labs at three universities following the Anthrax attacks in 2001. Thomas D. Beamish's account affirms the importance of local political dynamics in shaping public perceptions of risk and its management.
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