Dirty rotten strategies
Subtitle: how we trick ourselves and others into solving the wrong problems precisely
By: Ian I. Mitroff and Abraham Silvers.
Contributors: Silvers, Abraham.
Series: High Reliability and Crisis Management
Publisher: Stanford Business Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780804759960
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Problem solving; Errors; Deception; Critical thinking
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: xiii; label: 1
title: SCREWING UP ROYALLY: An Introduction to the Errors of the Third and the Fourth Kinds
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: WHAT IS A PROBLEM? An Initial Framework for Type Three and Four Errors
pagenum: 29; label: 3
title: ORGANIZED MEANNESS: The Biggest and the Most Broken Health System in the World
pagenum: 43; label: 4
title: NATIONAL INSECURITY: The Complete and Utter Failure to Understand Why Bigger Is No Longer Better
pagenum: 63; label: 5
title: THE MEDIA: National Insecurity
pagenum: 81; label: 6
title: THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF ACADEMIA: Misrepresenting Reality
pagenum: 105; label: 7
title: THE ABUSE AND THE MISUSE OF SCIENCE
pagenum: 123; label: 8
title: ORGANIZED RELIGION: Misconstruing God
pagenum: 144; label: 9
title: A GENERAL THEORY OF ROTTENNESS: Breaking the Grip of Type Four Errors
pagenum: 167; title: Notes
pagenum: 179; title: About the Authors
pagenum: 197; title: Index
pagenum: 199