Disastrous Decisions
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Disastrous Decisions
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Author : Andrew Hopkins
language : en
Publisher: Cch Australia Limited
Release Date : 2012
Disastrous Decisions written by Andrew Hopkins and has been published by Cch Australia Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Business & Economics categories.
Takes the reader into the realm of human and organisational factors that contributed to the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010. This event resulted in the loss of 11 lives, the sinking of the rig and untold damage to the environment. It is important to know what people did, but even more important to know why they did it. Hopkins from ANU.
Disastrous High Tech Decision Making
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Author : Frederick F. Lighthall
language : en
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Release Date : 2016-03-31
Disastrous High Tech Decision Making written by Frederick F. Lighthall and has been published by Dog Ear Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-31 with Psychology categories.
Disastrous High-Tech Decision Making: From Disasters to Safety offers new insights for scholars studying management, decision making, cognition in the wild, and safety in the context of imperatives to continue operations. This book takes you inside the deliberations and action that have produced high-tech disasters in safetycritical enterprises. From primary data and analyses never before considered in scholarly assessments of the Challenger disaster, Frederick F. Lighthall, Professor Emeritus at The University of Chicago, applies the insights of macroergonomics, social psychology, naturalistic decision making, and legal argumentation to this expanded set of documents and data. He argues that the Challenger case represents a prototype of decision making that arises whenever a possibly threatening change in operating conditions becomes evident. In this situation, inevitable in boundarypushing enterprises, four generic decision-making pitfalls await engineers and managers who must decide whether continuing to operate is safe or dangerous. These four decision-making vulnerabilities are also evident, Lighthall argues, in the decision situations of other high-tech disasters both similar (the Columbia shuttle) and dissimilar (Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster). In Part I of the book Lighthall traces decision participants’ chart-by-chart deliberations and argument about whether proceeding with the Challenger’s launch would be dangerous. Part II analyzes from contrasting perspectives the dynamics revealed in the narrative. Lighthall’s analysis ends by examining the demanding changes in outlook, knowledge disciplines, and learning processes required for safety to compete with the production imperatives of high-tech enterprises operating in unforgiving environments. This book is a must read both for students of management and of engineering who may find themselves working in these high-tech settings, and for managers and engineers who now work in these settings.
Big Decisions
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Author : Lee Crumbaugh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-02-20
Big Decisions written by Lee Crumbaugh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-20 with categories.
We don't know how to make good decision when it really counts, or, more accurately, if we even recognize that a big decision is needed, we are ill-equipped to make it in a way most beneficial to our personal or organizational interests. In this deep exploration of why we make poor decisions - because of hundreds of mental biases, traps and errors that plague our thinking and because we don't know nor use decision-making best practices - Lee Crumbaugh tells scores of stories that reveal the disastrous consequences of people and organizations making bad decisions and why they made them (as well as some stories showing the terrific results that can flow from great decisions). Crumbaugh shows why we aren't wired for great decision making and why making the perfect decision is impossible. Exploring the results of thousands of research studies, Crumbaugh offers a set of decision tools and a framework for producing a great decision when it really matters. You will learn how to recognize and overcome the most common biases and traps that result in poor decisions.
Disastrous Decisions
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Author : Andrew Hopkins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-05
Disastrous Decisions written by Andrew Hopkins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05 with categories.
Encyclopedia Idiotica
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Author : Stephen Weir
language : en
Publisher: B.E.S. Publishing
Release Date : 2005
Encyclopedia Idiotica written by Stephen Weir and has been published by B.E.S. Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Errors categories.
The 64 A.D. burning of Rome during the reign of Nero . . . Winston Churchill's ill-conceived and disastrous World War I plan to invade Turkey at Gallipoli . . . the Maginot Line, built in France in 1929-34 in a foolhardy effort to prevent the feared German invasion . . . the 1950s thalidomide pharmaceutical disaster that resulted in at least 20,000 babies born with deformities . . . the 1989-91 misappropriation of company funds by publishing executive Robert Maxwell, and the collapse of his financial empire . . . the Enron scandal of 2000 that brought down a yet larger business empire. Chronicled in these pages are stories of corporate chicanery, poor military decisions, engineering disasters, diplomatic blunders, and other appalling, large-scale mistakes that resulted in ruin and misery for countless innocent bystanders. Here are baleful tales motivated by false hope, anger, greed, pride, lust, and many other instances of erratic human behavior. A selection of approximately 50 disastrous decisions are presented, each grim account summarized in a report of roughly a half-dozen pages and enhanced with sidebars and thumbnail-sized cartoon-style illustrations. Each account opens with its cast of characters, then sets the story's background before reporting the grim details and concluding with the unhappy moral. Here is a page-turner of a book that recounts some of history's most dramatic-but also catastrophic-moments.
History S Worst Decisions
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Author : Stephen Weir
language : en
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Release Date : 2005
History S Worst Decisions written by Stephen Weir and has been published by Allen & Unwin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
History is strewn with mistakes. Many made by well intentioned people who were bright, intelligent, capable, but just made the wrong decision.
More Of History S Worst Decisions
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Author : Ian Whitelaw
language : en
Publisher: Pier 9
Release Date : 2012
More Of History S Worst Decisions written by Ian Whitelaw and has been published by Pier 9 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Decision making categories.
If the road to damnation is paved with the best of intentions, then the road to disaster is paved with what, at first sight, appeared to be a smart move. More of History's Worst Decisions features a second crop of humongous historical bloopers, ordered chronologically, starting with the granddaddy of them all, our hominid ancestors' decision to come down from the trees, and categorized into military, religion, culture, politics, scandal, environment and everyone's current favourite, economics.
Never Go With Your Gut
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Author : Gleb Tsipursky
language : en
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Release Date : 2019-11-01
Never Go With Your Gut written by Gleb Tsipursky and has been published by Red Wheel/Weiser this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-01 with Business & Economics categories.
“This book is Moneyball for management. It will help you understand your subconscious biases that can lead to bad decisions, and it will teach you the techniques to help you make better decisions.” —Gordon Tredgold, author of Fast “This well-written, go-against-the-grain book is full of practical ways to tap into your very best mental resources to make better and better decisions.” —Brian Tracy, bestselling author of Eat that Frog! Want to avoid business disasters, whether minor mishaps, such as excessive team conflict, or major calamities like those that threaten bankruptcy or doom a promising career? Fortunately, behavioral economics studies show that such disasters stem from poor decisions due to our faulty mental patterns—what scholars call “cognitive biases”—and are preventable. Unfortunately, the typical advice for business leaders to “go with their guts” plays into these cognitive biases and leads to disastrous decisions that devastate the bottom line. By combining practical case studies with cutting-edge research, Never Go With Your Gut will help you make the best decisions and prevent these business disasters. The leading expert on avoiding business disasters, Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, draws on over 20 years of extensive consulting, coaching, and speaking experience to show how pioneering leaders and organizations—many of them his clients—avoid business disasters. Reading this book will enable you to: Discover how pioneering leaders and organizations address cognitive biases to avoid disastrous decisions. Adapt best practices on avoiding business disasters from these leaders and organizations to your own context. Develop processes that empower everyone in your organization to avoid business disasters.
Worst Ideas Ever
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Author : Daniel B. Kline
language : en
Publisher: Skyhorse
Release Date : 2015-08-04
Worst Ideas Ever written by Daniel B. Kline and has been published by Skyhorse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-04 with Humor categories.
Bad ideas happen to anyone, but truly awful ideas live on forever. Some bad ideas are infamous (remember New Coke or the XFL?), while others have managed to slip under the radar of public consciousness—like the in-car record player. But just because we’ve forgotten a bad idea doesn’t make it any less horrible. We all cringed when Michael Jordon announced he was leaving basketball for baseball, but did you know that Whoopi Goldberg made a never-released $35-million buddy cop movie where her partner was an animatronic dinosaur named Theodore Rex? Part history, part comedy, Worst Ideas Ever takes a look back and explores some of the biggest flops of all time. They say hindsight is 20/20, but it’s hard to believe nobody saw these coming. This book delves into the history of disaster, taking you through failed marketing campaigns, terrible pop icon projects, disastrous corporate decisions, and more, with the authors reviewing every funny detail of what went wrong. Worst Ideas Ever shows what separates the merely bad ideas from the terrible ones.
The Wiley Blackwell Handbook Of Judgment And Decision Making 2 Volume Set
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Author : Gideon Keren
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2016-02-16
The Wiley Blackwell Handbook Of Judgment And Decision Making 2 Volume Set written by Gideon Keren and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-16 with Psychology categories.
A comprehensive, up-to-date examination of the most important theory, concepts, methodological approaches, and applications in the burgeoning field of judgment and decision making (JDM) Emphasizes the growth of JDM applications with chapters devoted to medical decision making, decision making and the law, consumer behavior, and more Addresses controversial topics from multiple perspectives – such as choice from description versus choice from experience – and contrasts between empirical methodologies employed in behavioral economics and psychology Brings together a multi-disciplinary group of contributors from across the social sciences, including psychology, economics, marketing, finance, public policy, sociology, and philosophy 2 Volumes