Everybodys Business: Reclaiming True Management Skills in Business Higher Education

Everybody's Business is a succinct analysis of the factors that led to the founding of American business schools and why they are the way they are. Mitroff, Alpaslan, and O'Connor consider why current business schools do not give students the knowledge and the tools they need to deal with today's complex, messy problems and systems.

Autorentext
Author Ian I. Mitroff: Ian I. Mitroff is Senior Research Associate at the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, USA; Professor Emeritus of the University of Southern California, USA; and President of Mitroff Crisis Management. Author Can M. Alpaslan: Can M. Alpaslan is Professor in the Department of Management at California State University, Northridge, USA. Author Ellen S. O'Connor: Ellen S. O'Connor is a self-employed Researcher.

Inhalt

1. The Argument 2. Digging Deeper - Jungian Psychology 3. What Is a System? What Is a Mess? 4. The Nature of Human Nature - The Psychodynamics of Everyday Life 5. The Management of Knowledge - Systems Age Inquiry 6. Heuristics for Managing Messes 7. How We Got into the Mess and Prospects for Getting Out