In The Logic of Failure, Dietrich Dorner identifies the roots of catastrophe, the small, perfectly sensible steps that set the stage for disaster. In incisive analysis of real-life situations and often hilarious computer simulations he helps all those involved in any kind of strategic planning recognize and avoid such logical yet devastating errors.- From the dust jacket
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The Logic of Failure: Why Things Go Wrong and What We Can Do to Make Them Right
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Dietrich Dörner
Prof. Dr. Dietrich Dörner (born 1938 in Berlin) is professor and dean for General and Theoretical Psychology at the Institute of Theoretical Psychology at the Otto-Friedrich University in Bamberg, Germany.
In 1986, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche...
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- 1989
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- An individual's reality model can be right or wrong, complete or incomplete. As a rule it will be both incomplete and wrong...
- By labeling a bundle of problems with a single conceptual label, we make dealing with that problem easier - provided we're not interested in solving it.