Combatting Disruptive Change (eBook)

Beating Unruly Competition at Their Own Game

Ian I. Mitroff (Autor)

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2016 | 1st ed. 2016
XIX, 92 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
978-1-137-60044-8 (ISBN)

Infos

This book is a critical examination of the main ideas regarding disruptive change and startups. It systematically lays out the full set of challenges and tasks one needs to master in order for existing organizations to weather severe change or make a startup successful. Ian Mitroff outlines the protective actions business leaders must take to ensure their continued existence, providing a clear demonstration of the key roles leaders must assume such as Applied Epistemologist, Applied Ethicist, Applied Systems Thinker, Applied Social Psychologist, and Applied Crisis Manager, and how to perform these roles competently.

Citing cases such as Facebook, Uber, and Airbnb, this book uniquely analyzes the disrupting agent in emerging industries, which is crucial for success in today's complex and turbulent world. It will be of value to students, academics, and entrepreneurs looking to develop a new product or service.

Ian Mitroff is Senior Investigator in the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management, University of California - Berkeley, USA. He is Professor Emeritus of the Annenberg School of Communication and the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, USA, where he was the Harold Quinton Distinguished Professor of Business Policy. Dr. Mitroff is regarded as one of the founders of the discipline of Crisis Management and founded and directed the USC Center for Crisis Management. Known for his thinking and writing on a wide range of business and societal issues, he is the author of 36 books and is a frequent blogger for the Huffington Post.

Inhalt

Preface 6
Two Basic Premises 7
Key Roles 8
A Preview 11
Notes 12
Acknowledgement 14
Contents 16
List of Figures 18
List of Table 20
Chapter 1: It Is All About Assumptions: The Critical Role of an Applied Epistemologist 21
Facebook 23
Uber 26
Airbnb 27
Other Innovations 28
The Key Role of Assumptions 29
SAST 29
A More Detailed View of SAST 32
Adversarial 33
Participative 33
Integrative 33
Supportive 33
Missed Assumptions 36
Concluding Remarks 37
Postscript 38
Post-postscript 39
Notes 39
Chapter 2: Doing What Is Right: The Role of an Applied Ethicist 41
Ethical Propositions 43
Constantly Bombarded by Hot-Button Issues 45
Different Schools of Ethics 45
Closing Example: Is Religious Discrimination Ever Justified Ethically? 48
Concluding Remarks 50
Notes 51
Chapter 3: Think Like a System: Be an Applied Systems Thinker 52
The Jungian Framework 53
A Generalized Organizational Problem Formulation and Problem-Solving “Tool” 55
Examples 57
Concluding Remarks 57
Notes 59
Chapter 4: Thinking Like a Crisis Manager 60
The Jungian Crisis Framework 60
A Different Kind of Startup 62
Concluding Remarks 64
Chapter 5: Wisdom: How the Leaders of Purpose-­Driven Organizations Manage from Their Values 65
Introduction 65
Defaulters, Correctors, and Balancers 67
Purpose and Meaningful Work 68
Purposeful Organizations 68
Providers and Statesmen 69
Growth 70
Why They Started Their Organizations 70
The Key Elements of Purposeful Organizations 71
Personal Stories (SF) 72
The Need for Crises in the Search for Values 73
The Power of Early Family Dynamics 76
The Lifecycles of Values 76
Growth Again 78
Concluding Remarks 80
Postscript 81
Notes 81
Chapter 6: Applied Epistemology, Part 2 82
Inquiry Systems 82
A Prosaic Example 83
The First Way of Deciding: Expert Consensus 83
The Second Way of Deciding: “The One True Formula”! 85
The Third Way: Multiple Perspectives, Multiple Formulas 87
The Fourth Way: Expert Disagreement 89
The Fifth Way: Systems Thinking 90
The Essence of Systems Thinking 91
The Summary Thus Far: Objectivity 91
The Problem with Science 92
The Moral 93
Disruptive Change 94
Concluding Remarks: FDR Versus Eisenhower 94
Notes 95
Chapter 7: Assumptions and Stakeholders Revisited 97
Concluding Remarks 102
About the Author 103
Index 105

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.5.2016
• Zusatzinfo: XIX, 92 p. 19 illus., 9 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Finanzierung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• Schlagworte: Crisis Management • Disruptive Change • Entrepreneurship • Epistemology • ethics • Industry Studies • Management • Organizations • Risk Management • Stakeholder • Startups
• ISBN-10: 1-137-60044-6 / 1137600446
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-60044-8 / 9781137600448