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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
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Mitroff, Ian I.
Contributor:
Silvers, Abraham.
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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