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Summary of Chris Clearfield & András Tilcsik's Meltdown
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The Ventana Nuclear Power Plant, located in the San Gabriel Mountains just east of Los Angeles, experienced a tremor in the late 1970s. The control room crew opened relief valves to get rid of the excess water, but in reality, the water level wasn’t high at all. #2 The Three Mile Island meltdown began as a simple plumbing problem. A work crew was performing routine maintenance on the nonnuclear part of the plant, and the set of pumps that normally sent water to the steam generator shut down. Without water flowing to the steam generator, it couldn’t remove heat from the reactor core. #3 The author Charles Perrow, a sociology professor, studied the organization of textile mills in nineteenthcentury New England. He became interested in meltdowns when the presidential commission on the Three Mile Island accident asked him to study the event. #4 Perrow’s group reflected his personality. He was a demanding teacher, but his students loved his classes because they learned so much. He had a reputation for giving unusually intense but constructive criticism.
Summary of Chris Clearfield & András Tilcsik's Meltdown
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Ventana Nuclear Power Plant, located in the San Gabriel Mountains just east of Los Angeles, experienced a tremor in the late 1970s. The control room crew opened relief valves to get rid of the excess water, but in reality, the water level wasn’t high at all. #2 The Three Mile Island meltdown began as a simple plumbing problem. A work crew was performing routine maintenance on the nonnuclear part of the plant, and the set of pumps that normally sent water to the steam generator shut down. Without water flowing to the steam generator, it couldn’t remove heat from the reactor core. #3 The author Charles Perrow, a sociology professor, studied the organization of textile mills in nineteenth-century New England. He became interested in meltdowns when the presidential commission on the Three Mile Island accident asked him to study the event. #4 Perrow’s group reflected his personality. He was a demanding teacher, but his students loved his classes because they learned so much. He had a reputation for giving unusually intense but constructive criticism.
Meltdown
A groundbreaking take on how complexity causes failure in all kinds of modern systems--from social media to air travel--this practical and entertaining book reveals how we can prevent meltdowns in business and life.
Meltdown
A groundbreaking take on how complexity causes failure in all kinds of modern systems--from social media to air travel--this practical and entertaining book reveals how we can prevent meltdowns in business and life. A crash on the Washington, D.C. metro system. An accidental overdose in a state-of-the-art hospital. An overcooked holiday meal. At first glance, these disasters seem to have little in common. But surprising new research shows that all these events--and the myriad failures that dominate headlines every day--share similar causes. By understanding what lies behind these failures, we can design better systems, make our teams more productive, and transform how we make decisions at wo...
Survive and Thrive
Whether big or small, companies incessantly face challenges that can threaten their bottom line and even their survival. These threats keep corporate leaders up at night. What can companies do to stay alive? Survive and Thrive: Winning Against Strategic Threats to Your Business features a collection of essays by strategy professors at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, Canada’s #1 business school. The essays take the reader on a tour through some of the most vexing threats to business today, threats that put the very existence of organizations into question. From disruptive innovation, to social media disasters, to mistaken technical investments, to gender discrimin...
Getting to Diversity
“This book has the potential to change CEO mindsets, human resource practices, manager behavior, and employee well-being—if only enough people grab it and heed its powerful messages.” —Rosabeth Moss Kanter, author of Think Outside the Building “Dobbin and Kalev have spent their careers studying why diversity initiatives fail and what it takes to fix them. Their data-driven book doesn’t just spotlight the problems—it’s packed with solutions.” —Adam Grant “Essential reading for anyone who wants to learn which practices can actually improve managerial diversity in organizations.”—Edward Chang, Science “Too many companies don’t know how to walk the walk of diversity...
Right Kind of Wrong
Winner of the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2023 A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2023 A revolutionary guide that will transform your relationship with failure, from the pioneering researcher of psychological safety and award-winning Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson. We used to think of failure as the opposite of success. Now, we’re often torn between two “failure cultures”: one that says to avoid failure at all costs, the other that says fail fast, fail often. The trouble is that both approaches lack the crucial distinctions to help us separate good failure from bad. As a result, we miss the opportunity to fail well. After decades of awar...
Thinkers 50: Innovation, Leadership, Management and Strategy (EBOOK BUNDLE)
Four E-Books in One The World's Leading Business Minds on Today's Most Critical Challenges "Thinkers50 is now established as the definitive ranking of global thought leaders." -- Professor Costas Markides, London Business School Innovation used to separate extraordinary companies from average companies. Today, it's making the difference between those that succeed and those that outright fail. Business leaders have no choice: innovate or die. Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove, creators of Thinkers50, bring you the very latest thinking on the subject of business innovation. Citing the ideas and insights of the world's leading thinkers and business practitioners, the authors present a guide to bu...
Five Hundred Years of Lgbtqia+ History in Western Nicaragua
This groundbreaking book reframes five hundred years of western Nicaraguan history by giving gender and sexuality the attention they deserve. Victoria González-Rivera decenters nationalist narratives of triumphant mestizaje and argues that western Nicaragua's LGBTQIA+ history is a profoundly Indigenous one. In this expansive history, González-Rivera documents connections between Indigeneity, local commerce, and femininity (cis and trans), demonstrating the long history of LGBTQIA+ Nicaraguans. She sheds light on historical events, such as Andres Caballero's 1536 burning at the stake for sodomy. González-Rivera discusses how elite efforts after independence to "modernize" open-air markets led to increased surveillance of LGBTQIA+ working-class individuals. She also examines the 1960s and the Somoza dictatorship, when another wave of persecution emerged, targeting working-class gay men and trans women, leading to a more stringent anti-sodomy law. The centuries prior to the post-1990 political movement for greater LGBTQIA+ rights demonstrate that, far from being marginal, LGBTQIA+ Nicaraguans have been active in every area of society for hundreds of years.
Man Kind
"A counseling psychologist, the author specializes in masculinity studies, specifically the association between masculine identity norms and outcomes in men's health and well-being. He explains the counseling method he developed for improving men's regulation of their thoughts, emotions, and actions"--
