The Logic of Failure: Why Things Go Wrong and What We Can Do to Make Them Right

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 more

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  • 1996

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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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