The devil never sleeps : learning to live in an age of disasters / Juliette Kayyem.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kayyem, Juliette N., author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crisis management.

Emergency management.

Preparedness.

Physical Description:

ix, 219 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : PublicAffairs, 2022.

Summary:

An urgent, transformative guide to dealing with disasters from one of today's foremost thinkers in crisis management.

"The future may still be unpredictable, but nowadays, disasters are not. We live in a time of constant, consistent catastrophe, where things more often go wrong than they go right. So why do we still fumble when disaster hits? Why are we always one step behind? In The Devil Never Sleeps, Juliette Kayyem lays the groundwork for a new approach to dealing with disasters. Presenting the basic themes of crisis management, Kayyem amends the principles we rely on far too easily. Instead, she offers us a new framework to anticipate the "devil's" inevitable return, highlighting the leadership deficiencies we need to overcome and the forward thinking we need to harness. It's no longer about preventing a disaster from occurring, but learning how to use the tools at our disposal to minimize the consequences when it does. Filled with personal anecdotes and real-life examples from natural disasters like the California wildfires to man-made ones like the Boeing 737 MAX crisis, The Devil Never Sleeps is a guide for governments, businesses, and individuals alike on how to alter our thinking so that we can develop effective strategies in the face of perpetual catastrophe''--Dust jacket flap

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. One Assume the Boom

ch. Two What's the Word?

ch. Three Unity of Effort

ch. Four Avoid the Last Line of Defense Trap

ch. Five Stop the Bleed

ch. Six The Way We Were

ch. Seven The Near Miss Fallacy

ch. Eight Listen to the Dead.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-209) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781541700093

1541700090

OCLC:

1294391653

Publisher Number:

99991057173