- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc (29 April 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0195077830
- ISBN-13: 978-0195077834
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.5 x 2.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,708,315 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Global markets, the service economy, Japanese competition, increased consumer sophistication - the world of business is as fast-moving as ever, but as this controversial study claims, many traditional strategies have either simply failed to keep pace or lost their sense of direction. The only way forward is change. Weaving together insights gleaned from philosophy, psychology, economics and management science, and analyzing such examples as the decline of the US auto industry, the Bhopal disaster and the scare at Three Mile Island, the authors reveal that simplification is a thing of the past, and that varying perspectives, multiple realities, and openness to multiple solutions are the key to modern business thinking and decision-making.
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Ian Mitroff's previous books include Breakaway Thinking: How to Challenge Your Business Assumptions (And Why You Should) (Wiley, 1988) and Stakeholders of the Organizational Mind: Toward a New View of Organizational Policy-making (Jossey-Bass, 1983).
Harold Linstone is the author of Multiple Perspectives for Decision Making: Bridging the Gap Between Analysis and Action (Elsevier, 1984).
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Understanding the limitations on our thought processes
22 July 2000
Format:Paperback
While this is not a book to be read for entertainment, it will certainly surprise and excite those who wish to better understand our every day decision making processes. I highly recommend it for those who need to think quickly and efficiently in business, or even for anyone who just wants to better understand their own decision making patterns for better or for worse. You'll need at least a couple of weeks to get through this one, and I would recommend reading it with a friend so you can discuss each chapter as you progress throuh the book.
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A memorable schema for how people approach decisions
30 July 2001
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I enjoyed reading this a year ago, and recently bought a copy as a gift. I remembered it as a "light" read, but it's really fairly long. The authors give you a memorable perspective on how there are completely different ways of viewing decisions - appeal to consensus; appeal to facts; appeal to authority, etc. You may take that for grant, but the book really brings this perspective alive and points out that modern-world decision making requires more complex approaches that ever before.
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Wicked problems are difficult to structure
26 July 2001
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This book examines the difficult task of formulating the structure of particularly complex, or wicked, problems. Wicked problems often do not have "right" or "wrong" solutions, and progress on one aspect of such a problem often leads to new problems on another aspect. By defining the multiple perspectives of stakeholders in these problem "messes", Mitroff and Linstone illustrate how one can begin to approach "solving" them in a reasonable fashion.
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