Swans, Swine, and Swindlers: Coping with the Growing Threat of Mega-Crises and Mega-Messes

by Can M. Alpaslan and Ian I. Mitroff

Swans, Swine, and Swindlers addresses a core, contemporary question: What steps can we take to better anticipate and manage mega-crises, such as Haiti, Katrina, and 9/11?

This book explores the concept of "messes." A mess is a web of complex and dynamically interacting, ill-defined, and/or wicked problems; their solutions; and our conscious and unconscious assumptions, beliefs, emotions, and values. The roots of messes can be classified...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804771375
• ISBN13: 9780804771375
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Stanford Business Books
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"