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Resilience : why things bounce back / Andrew Zolli & Ann Marie Healy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zolli, Andrew.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fault tolerance (Engineering).
- Stability.
- Hysteresis.
- Resilience (Personality trait).
- Physical Description:
- 323 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Free Press hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Free Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- All systems break down. Some bounce back, others do not. This is a book about why. Covering business, economic, geographic and social systems, Zolli uncovers a wealth of absorbing examples--from the link between US oil prices and the recent 'tortilla riots' in Mexico to what was really happening when the U.S. government decided not to bail out Lehman Bros.
- Contents:
- Robust, yet fragile
- Sense, scale, swarm
- The power of clusters
- The resilient mind
- Cooperation when it counts
- Cognitive diversity
- Communities that bounce back
- The translational leader
- Bringing resilience home.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1451683804
- 9781451683806
- OCLC:
- 769986983
- Publisher Number:
- 99954773628
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