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Creative Stratagems: Creative and Systems Thinking in Handling Social Conflict

Author : Adam Matuszczyk

Publisher : Modern Society Publishing

Page : 118 pages

File Size : 43,4 MB

Release : 2012

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 095737500X

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Stratagems - that is what we call war ruses but also ruses in general. They can decide victory or defeat. We are all familiar with well-known war ruses. Just think of the Greek story of the Trojan horse. These days, we think of a "Trojan horse" mostly in connection with criminal computer hacking. We then have to ask: "How does one think up stratagems?" To do so, one must have competency in creative and systemic thinking. This book explains the value and meaning of these ways of thinking for the creation of stratagems. Readers will learn - How to think of the term "stratagem" - What kinds of stratagems one might find (e.g. from antiquity, the "Stratagemata" of Frontin) - What creative and systems thinking is and how it expresses itself in the development of ruses - How one might go about thinking up stratagems This book is meant for everyone who handles social conflict as well as those with an interest in creative and systems thinking.



Hunger

Author : N S Nash

Publisher : Pen and Sword Military

Page : 314 pages

File Size : 44,44 MB

Release : 2023-11-01

Category : History

ISBN : 1399040634

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Throughout the ages, more combatants and civilians have died in war of the effects of starvation and resulting disease than have been killed by bullet or bomb. The author of this fascinating work argues that, over the last 160 years, conflicts have been decided not just on the battlefield but by the denial of an adversary’s access to food. The starvation that followed led to military indiscipline, social unrest, and a failure of governance. Numerous examples prove his point, not least Germany in 1919. The Union blockade of the Confederacy in 1861 was a major factor in the outcome of the Civil War as was the American strategy against Japan in 1943-1945. The fates of besieged forces both at Vicksburg in 1863 and the British at Kut in 1916 were sealed when control of their respective supply routes was lost. Churchill’s fears over Hitler’s U-boat campaign were well justified. ‘Logistics’ is a modern word, but it describes a fundamental element of generalship, amply demonstrated at Metz in 1870 when logistic illiteracy resulted in a vast and hitherto undefeated French army having no option but to surrender. This thought-provoking book vividly demonstrates that extreme hunger is the precursor to starvation and, consequently, almost inevitable defeat. It proves that deprivation of food is a potent weapon that no commander can ignore.



The Systems Thinking Playbook

Author : Linda Booth Sweeney

Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing

Page : 258 pages

File Size : 10,64 MB

Release : 2010

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1603582584

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DVD contains videos illustrating good practice in introducing and running 30 games.



Threatcasting

Author : Brian David Johnson

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 285 pages

File Size : 25,88 MB

Release : 2022-06-01

Category : Mathematics

ISBN : 303102575X

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Impending technological advances will widen an adversary’s attack plane over the next decade. Visualizing what the future will hold, and what new threat vectors could emerge, is a task that traditional planning mechanisms struggle to accomplish given the wide range of potential issues. Understanding and preparing for the future operating environment is the basis of an analytical method known as Threatcasting. It is a method that gives researchers a structured way to envision and plan for risks ten years in the future. Threatcasting uses input from social science, technical research, cultural history, economics, trends, expert interviews, and even a little science fiction to recognize future threats and design potential futures. During this human-centric process, participants brainstorm what actions can be taken to identify, track, disrupt, mitigate, and recover from the possible threats. Specifically, groups explore how to transform the future they desire into reality while avoiding an undesired future. The Threatcasting method also exposes what events could happen that indicate the progression toward an increasingly possible threat landscape. This book begins with an overview of the Threatcasting method with examples and case studies to enhance the academic foundation. Along with end-of-chapter exercises to enhance the reader’s understanding of the concepts, there is also a full project where the reader can conduct a mock Threatcasting on the topic of “the next biological public health crisis.” The second half of the book is designed as a practitioner’s handbook. It has three separate chapters (based on the general size of the Threatcasting group) that walk the reader through how to apply the knowledge from Part I to conduct an actual Threatcasting activity. This book will be useful for a wide audience (from student to practitioner) and will hopefully promote new dialogues across communities and novel developments in the area.





Changing Conversations in Organizations

Author : Patricia Shaw

Publisher : Psychology Press

Page : 214 pages

File Size : 10,69 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9780415249140

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Focusing on the essential uncertainty of participating in evolving events as they happen, this book considers the creative possibilities of such participation from a complexity perspective.



Conflict, Culture, and History

Author : Stephen J. Blank

Publisher :

Page : 376 pages

File Size : 46,4 MB

Release : 2002-06-01

Category : History

ISBN : 9781410200488

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Five specialists examine the historical relationship of culture and conflict in various regional societies. The authors use Adda B. Bozeman's theories on conflict and culture as the basis for their analyses of the causes, nature, and conduct of war and conflict in the Soviet Union, the Middle East, Sinic Asia (China, Japan, and Vietnam), Latin America, and Africa. Drs. Blank, Lawrence Grinter, Karl P. Magyar, Lewis B. Ware, and Bynum E. Weathers conclude that non-Western cultures and societies do not reject war but look at violence and conflict as a normal and legitimate aspect of sociopolitical behavior.



The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Author : Julian Jaynes

Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Page : 580 pages

File Size : 34,30 MB

Release : 2000-08-15

Category : Psychology

ISBN : 0547527543

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National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry



Negotiation

Author : Carrie J. Menkel-Meadow

Publisher : Aspen Publishing

Page : 624 pages

File Size : 26,17 MB

Release : 2020-09-14

Category : Law

ISBN : 1543823203

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The purchase of this ebook edition does not entitle you to receive access to the Connected eBook on CasebookConnect. You will need to purchase a new print book to get access to the full experience including: lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities, plus an outline tool and other helpful resources. A distinguished team of leaders in the field of dispute resolution offers a thorough treatment of negotiation skills, ethics, and problem-solving techniques. Comprehensive and current, Negotiation: Processes for Problem Solvingcovers the theory, skills, ethical issues, and legal and policy analyses relevant to all key areas of negotiation practice. Carefully selected cases are supported by key readings, from critical articles and empirical studies to statutes and regulations. Negotiation: Processes for Problem Solving looks at the latest interdisciplinary approaches to negotiation, including new empirical studies examining on-line negotiation, social and cognitive psychology, gender, race, culture and negotiation, and multiple party negotiation. An introduction to facilitated negotiation (mediation and meeting facilitation) is also included. New research is distilled for use by law students and practicing lawyers. New and complex examples from international negotiation problems come from both private and public environments. The book also explores new forms of complex negotiation in international, multi-party and diverse settings and considers negotiators as problem-solving lawyers. The text is perfectly suited to free standing negotiation courses in American and foreign law schools. Problem boxes, set off in the book, make for easy classroom exercises and teaching. New to the Third Edition: Online and other media forms of negotiation New articles from both research and practice books Shorter excerpts for distilled treatment of issues Comprehensive treatment of negotiation preparation, including client interviewing and counseling Analysis of choice of negotiation approaches to match particular contexts Professors and students will benefit from: A thorough treatment of negotiation skills, ethics, and problem-solving techniques Theory and different frameworks for analyzing negotiation contexts Legal and policy analyses relevant to all key areas of negotiation practice Carefully selected cases and problem sets supported by key readings, from critical articles and empirical studies to statutes and regulations Latest interdisciplinary approaches to negotiation Negotiation research distilled for law students and practicing lawyers Deep discussion of negotiators as problem-solving lawyers Complex examples from international negotiation problems in both private and public environments new forms and facilitation of complex negotiation in international, multi-party, and diverse settings



The Climate Change Playbook

Author : Dennis Meadows

Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing

Page : 193 pages

File Size : 31,21 MB

Release : 2016

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1603586768

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"The simple, interactive exercises in The Climate Change Playbook can help citizens better understand climate change, diagnose its causes, anticipate its future consequences, and effect constructive change. Adapted from The Systems Thinking Playbook, the twenty-two games are now specifically relevant to climate-change communications and crafted for use by experts, advocates, and educators. Illustrated guidelines walk leaders through setting each game up, facilitating it, and debriefing participants. Users will find games that are suitable for a variety of audiences--whether large and seated, as in a conference room, or smaller and mobile, as in a workshop, seminar, or meeting.