Dirty rotten strategies : how we trick ourselves and others into solving the wrong problems precisely / Ian I. Mitroff and Abraham Silvers.
By: Mitroff, Ian I.
Contributor(s): Silvers, Abraham.
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Business Books, c2010Description: xviii, 210 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780804759960 (alk. paper).Subject(s): Critical thinking | Deception | Errors | Problem solvingGenre/Form: Print books.DDC classification: 650.1Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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On Shelf | BF449 .M597 2010 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000002236 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Screwing up royally : an introduction to the errors of the third and the fourth kinds -- What is a problem? : an initial framework for type three and four errors -- Organized meanness : the biggest and the most broken health system in the world -- National insecurity : the complete and utter failure to understand why bigger is no longer better -- Reinventing reality : the biggest potential type four error of all -- The wonderful world of academia : misrepresenting reality -- The abuse and the misuse of science -- The misconstrued God -- A general theory of rottenness : breaking the grip of type four errors.