Richard Alfred

Catastrophic Risk (eBook, ePUB)

Business Strategy for Managing Turbulence in a World at Risk

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Imagine that you are a corporate executive or small business owner in a midwestern city under water after weeks of extreme weather and drenching rainfall. Infrastructure has been damaged beyond repair, transportation arteries are closed, and your supply chain is broken.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000434675
• Artikelnr.: 62339437

Autorenporträt

Richard Alfred is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education at the University of Michigan. Prior to joining the graduate faculty at Michigan in 1980, he served as an executive officer in the City University of New York and the Metropolitan Community Colleges in Kansas City, Missouri. He is the author of numerous books among them Developing Tomorrow's Leaders: Context, Challenges and Capabilities (2015), Performance: The Dynamic of Results in Postsecondary Organizations (2012), and an award-winning book on organizational strategy, Managing the Big Picture in Colleges and Universities: From Tactics to Strategy (2006). Over the course of a 50-year career in academe, he has consulted with hundreds of organizations in the areas of strategy, organizational effectiveness and performance, and leadership. Foresight into the future-a hallmark of his books and written works-has shaped management and leadership practice in colleges and universities throughout North America.

Dick holds a baccalaureate degree from Allegheny College and masters and doctoral degrees from Penn State University. He and his wife Pat reside in Ocean Park, Maine.

Inhaltsangabe

PART ONE: SETTING THE CONTEXT Chapter 1. A World at Risk Chapter 2.
Deterrents to Action PART TWO: CHALLENGES AND DETERRENTS Chapter 3. The
Power and Peril of Pandemic Chapter 4. Climate Change: Default, Mitigation,
or Adaptation? Chapter 5. Social Inequality Chapter 6. Polarization:
Factions, Filters and Antipathy Chapter 7. Changing Social Norms Chapter 8.
Navigating and Falling Behind Change PART THREE: SHAPING THE FUTURE
Chapter 9. Rethinking Business Purpose and Strategy Chapter 10. Mobilizing