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Dirty rotten strategies : how we trick ourselves and others into solving the wrong problems precisely / Ian I. Mitroff and Abraham Silvers.
LIBRA BF449 .M597 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mitroff, Ian I.
- Series:
- High reliability and crisis management
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Problem solving.
- Errors.
- Deception.
- Critical thinking.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 210 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Business Books, [2010]
- Contents:
- Screwing up royally : an introduction to the errors of the third and the fourth kinds
- What is a problem? : an initial framework for type three and four errors
- Organized meanness : the biggest and the most broken health system in the world
- National insecurity : the complete and utter failure to understand why bigger is no longer better
- The media : national insecurity
- The wonderful world of academia : misrepresenting reality
- The abuse and the misuse of science
- Organized religion : misconstruing God
- A general theory of rottenness : breaking the grip of type four errors.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804759960
- 0804759960
- OCLC:
- 317288451
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