The Polythink Syndrome - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Polythink Syndrome write by Alex Mintz. This book was released on 2016-01-20. The Polythink Syndrome available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why do presidents and their advisors often make sub-optimal decisions on military intervention, escalation, de-escalation, and termination of conflicts? The leading concept of group dynamics, groupthink, offers one explanation: policy-making groups make sub-optimal decisions due to their desire for conformity and uniformity over dissent, leading to a failure to consider other relevant possibilities. But presidential advisory groups are often fragmented and divisive. This book therefore scrutinizes polythink, a group decision-making dynamic whereby different members in a decision-making unit espouse a plurality of opinions and divergent policy prescriptions, resulting in a disjointed decision-making process or even decision paralysis. The book analyzes eleven national security decisions, including the national security policy designed prior to the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the decisions to enter into and withdraw from Afghanistan and Iraq, the 2007 "surge" decision, the crisis over the Iranian nuclear program, the UN Security Council decision on the Syrian Civil War, the faltering Kerry Peace Process in the Middle East, and the U.S. decision on military operations against ISIS. Based on the analysis of these case studies, the authors address implications of the polythink phenomenon, including prescriptions for avoiding and/or overcoming it, and develop strategies and tools for what they call Productive Polythink. The authors also show the applicability of polythink to business, industry, and everyday decisions.
Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Risk Management and Cyber Intelligence
Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Risk Management and Cyber Intelligence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Risk Management and Cyber Intelligence write by Dall'Acqua, Luisa. This book was released on 2020-08-28. Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Risk Management and Cyber Intelligence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The emergence of artificial intelligence has created a vast amount of advancements within various professional sectors and has transformed the way organizations conduct themselves. The implementation of intelligent systems has assisted with developing traditional processes including decision making, risk management, and security. An area that requires significant attention and research is how these companies are becoming accustomed to computer intelligence and applying this technology to their everyday practices. Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Risk Management and Cyber Intelligence is a pivotal reference source that provides vital research on the application of intelligent systems within various professional sectors as well as the exploration of theories and empirical findings. While highlighting topics such as decision making, cognitive science, and knowledge management, this publication explores the management of risk and uncertainty using training exercises, as well as the development of managerial intelligence competency. This book is ideally designed for practitioners, educators, researchers, policymakers, managers, developers, analysts, politicians, and students seeking current research on modern approaches to the analysis and performance of cyber intelligence.
Handicapping the Handicapped
Handicapping the Handicapped - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Handicapping the Handicapped write by Hugh Mehan. This book was released on 1986. Handicapping the Handicapped available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discusses "labeling" and catagorizing those children who have learning problems.
Moving Out of the Box
Moving Out of the Box - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Moving Out of the Box write by Jana M. Kemp. This book was released on 2007-11-30. Moving Out of the Box available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Project teams are the rule rather than the exception in today's organizations. But thanks to the pressure of performance goals, conflicting agendas, and political jockeying, few teams make superior decisions consistently. Instead, team members communicate poorly or not at all, avoid provocative discussion, occasionally stab each other in the back, or in many other ways forget that their job is to make decisions that lead the company forward. Jana Kemp, an authority on team decision making, saves the day by offering tested methods and tools team members and their leaders can use to ratchet up the performance level. That not only makes team projects more successful—it makes work fun. Kemp argues that the way to make good decisions is to have an expansive group conversation that leads to sound decisions and swift execution. Sounds simple, but in most organizations, making a decision and seeing it through can become an exercise in frustration for managers and employees alike. At one end of the spectrum are command-and-control decisions, proclaimed from on-high and implemented through the ranks. Without input or buy-in from those affected by the decision, this approach can lead to resentment and backlash. At the other end are purely collaborative, consensus decisions that often lead to inoffensive, weak choices and sub-par results.
Understanding Foreign Policy Decision Making
Understanding Foreign Policy Decision Making - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Understanding Foreign Policy Decision Making write by Alex Mintz. This book was released on 2010-02-22. Understanding Foreign Policy Decision Making available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Understanding Foreign Policy Decision Making presents a psychological approach to foreign policy decision making. This approach focuses on the decision process, dynamics, and outcome. The book includes a wealth of extended real-world case studies and examples that are woven into the text. The cases and examples, which are written in an accessible style, include decisions made by leaders of the United States, Israel, New Zealand, Cuba, Iceland, United Kingdom, and others. In addition to coverage of the rational model of decision making, levels of analysis of foreign policy decision making, and types of decisions, the book includes extensive material on alternatives to the rational choice model, the marketing and framing of decisions, cognitive biases, and domestic, cultural, and international influences on decision making in international affairs. Existing textbooks do not present such an approach to foreign policy decision making, international relations, American foreign policy, and comparative foreign policy.
