Swans, Swine, and Swindlers: Coping with the Growing Threat of Mega-Crises and Mega-Messes (High Reliability and Crisis Management) (edition 2011)

by Ian Mitroff, Can Alpaslan

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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 m… (more)

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Title:	Swans, Swine, and Swindlers: Coping with the Growing Threat of Mega-Crises and Mega-Messes (High Reliability and Crisis Management)
Authors:	Ian Mitroff
Other authors:	Can Alpaslan
Info:	Stanford Business Books (2011), Hardcover, 232 pages
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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 m

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