Beyond Quick Fixes

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198892535
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Quick Fixes written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-21 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We seem to be stuck, staring at insurmountable challenges. The pandemic is the opening act for climate change, and we need to get much better at anticipating and preparing for these types of challenge. Simply rebuilding bridges once they fall, or houses once they are swept away, is both expensive and risks human lives. Anticipation and preparation costs more now, but is much less costly over time. Of course, spending now to save later is not a dominant American tradition. We have managed - or at least reacted to - the Aids epidemic (1981-2013), Internet bubble bursting (2001), the real estate bubble bursting (2007), the opioid epidemic (2017), forest fires on the West Coast (2018), and the coronavirus pandemic (2020). Very recently, we have experienced the fall of Afghanistan (2021), the latest earthquake and hurricane in Haiti (2021), and the attack on Ukraine (2022). Various earthquakes, hurricanes, and recently cicadas, but fortunately not locusts, have been sprinkled throughout. Beyond Quick Fixes steps back from business as usual to rethink how we can approach the complex challenges of contemporary society -- health, education, energy, and social media. Rouse retreats, initially, into the principals of design thinking rather than policy making; he rigorously reconsiders our typical modes of operation and explores alternative ways of thinking about complex problems and potential solutions. The result is an integrated approach to addressing complexity to assist leaders and advisors responsible for addressing these challenges.

Author : Ralph H. Kilmann
Publisher : Beard Books
ISBN 13 : 1587982188
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Quick written by Ralph H. Kilmann and published by Beard Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The necessary non-quick fix for creating and maintaining organizational success. A reprint.

Author : Dr. Tim Hill
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631957198
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 49 Days Back to Better written by Dr. Tim Hill and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It seems much of what society thought was normal about life and the world has changed. A tiny unseen virus has shut down businesses, crippled nations, and taken the lives of precious people. Those lives can never be replaced. And then there is the petty stuff like finding a single roll of toilet paper at the supermarket. People are wearing masks and gloves to protect themselves and others from this unseen enemy potentially hiding inside of friends, neighbors, and family members. Normal just isn’t normal anymore. Normal is just a place in people’s minds that everyone seems to want to get back to as soon as possible. Some people are even calling it a new normal, but what is that? As the concept of going back to better is considered, Dr. Tim Hill, Tim Enochs, and Adam Enochs fully understand that some losses can never be replaced, and in that realm, there is no going back to better. In 49 Days Back to Better, they focus on areas where there is a choice whether to go back to normal in those areas or find the way back to something better.

Author : John M. Perkins
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1585582115
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Charity written by John M. Perkins and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 1993-07-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful call to action to bring reconciliation and restoration to broken communities.

Author : James C. Paterson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1394191073
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Five Whys written by James C. Paterson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A straightforward explanation of root cause analysis and systems thinking, illustrating, with real-world examples and first-hand accounts, why things can ‘slip through our fingers’ and what to do to reduce the chances of things going off track. Beyond the Five Whys summarises, for the first time, many of the tried and tested ways of understanding problems using insights from aviation, high reliability organisations and a range of thought-provoking sources. The book provides readers with a clear and structured explanation how to analyse setbacks and head off problems in the first place. It will challenge much of the received wisdom, such as the idea there can be one root cause or that a person or bad culture could be a root cause. Specific areas covered: Learn what root causes are, how they differ from immediate and contributing causes and why it’s so important to go beyond the Five Whys technique for root cause analysis. Recalibrate the way you think about things going wrong, incorporating insights from systems thinking, so you can be clearer what ‘cultural’ or systemic problems mean in practice. Learn about the eight principal ways things can slip through our fingers. Go beyond the blame game and firefighting to avoid the never ending cycle of repeating issues. Strengthen your ability to read the output of a ‘lessons learned’ or enquiry report. Get a fresh perspective, using these techniques, on why the Titanic tragedy turned out so badly, and understand the numerous parallels between what happened then and a range of recent setbacks we have seen, such as the Covid 19 pandemic. Consider the broader application of these techniques to some of the challenges we face in the 21st century. Beyond the Five Whys also contains supplemental guidance how to make improvements in an organisation. It is of value to business managers and those in specialist roles such as GRC, ESG, risk, compliance, quality, project management, H&S, IT, and internal audit roles.

Author : Georgia Wilkin
Publisher : Berkley
ISBN 13 : 9780425133255
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Quick Fixes written by Georgia Wilkin and published by Berkley. This book was released on 1960-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter L. Benson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461514592
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trends in Youth Development written by Peter L. Benson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MOVING THE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT MESSAGE: TURNING A VAGUE IDEA INTO A MORAL IMPERATIVE Peter L. Benson and Karen Pittman THE CONTAGION OF AN IDEA In the past fifteen years, countless programs, agencies, funding initiatives, profes sionals, and volunteers have embraced the term "youth development. " Linked more by shared passion than by formal membership or credentials, these people and places have contributed to a wave of energy and activity not unlike that of a social movement, with a multitude of people "on the ground" connecting to a set of ideas that give sustenance, support, and value to increasingly innovative efforts to build competent, successful, and healthy youth. There are several particularly interesting dimensions to this movement. First, the youth development idea has the potential to draw people and organizations to gether across many sectors. Conferences and initiatives using youth development language attract increasingly eclectic audiences, bringing together national youth organizations, schools, city, county, and state agencies, police and juvenile jus tice workers, clergy, and committed citizens. Perhaps embedded in the youth de velopment idea is a philosophy or a "way" that has created an intellectual and/or spiritual home for actors across many settings. However this happens, it is clear that one of the powerful social consequences of the youth development idea is a connecting of the dots-the weaving within and across city, county, state, and of a tapestry of new relationships.

Author : Shelley G. Trebesch
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830844406
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Made to Flourish written by Shelley G. Trebesch and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every organization is made to flourish. But when problems arise, quick fixes and poor leadership training can drag it down. Here is the book that churches, NGOs, mission agencies, other nonprofits, businesses and the teams within these groups can use to enjoy the holistic, fruitful abundance that God intended for organizations and everyone in them.

Author : Debra Harkins
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1623962439
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Campus written by Debra Harkins and published by IAP. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how we approached the issue of community development in the context of competing interests and a differential power imbalance. We used a process-based model for supporting community transformation, a phenomenon in which university–community partnership is but one example. The people who most will want to read and use Beyond the Campus are faculty (e.g., executive coaches and consultants), staff, and action-focused researchers seeking to learn how to enhance their relationships with community leaders (e.g., principals, executive/program directors, teachers and parents) in urban educational settings.

Author : Gordon Nelson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 077358742X
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Global City written by Gordon Nelson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policies promoting Toronto as a global city and provincial economic engine have been seen as beneficial to the development of all of Ontario, yet much of the province has borne significant environmental, social, economic, and political costs as a result of one city's growth. Contributors to this volume call for a radical re-imagining of public policy at local, provincial, and federal levels, that accounts for Ontario's overlooked regions. Beyond the Global City presents a kaleidoscopic view of the province - the rich fields and small towns of the southwest, the productive agricultural lands of rural Huron County, historic Kingston and the Upper St Lawrence, the social and cultural diversity of the Ottawa valley, the near mythical woodlands and waters of Muskoka and Georgian Bay, and the heavily exploited coasts and waters of the Great Lakes - to provide a deeper understanding of its various communities. In a series of regional studies, contributors describe each area's distinctive qualities and challenges and offer recommendations about what is needed to move them forward in a more equitable and sustainable way. Two initial historical chapters lay the framework for the regional discussions, while cross-cutting and integrated chapters analyze the state of natural and cultural heritage and current development theory provincially, offering guidance for the future.