Crisis‐prepared organizations employ a number of distinct and creative strategies to cope with crises: they conduct internal assassin team exercises where they attempt to destroy their organizations given their privileged inside knowledge; they attempt to think like paranoids in order to come...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that more than ever than ever, businesses need to understand the nature of different concepts of knowledge and methods for producing them. Design/methodology/approach – Utilizing the philosophy of inquiry, the extreme importance and relevance of...

A major reason that crisis management is such a heavy burden is that the conceptual “road map of reality” that we all use to make basic sense of the world has broken down. Even more basic, the assumptions underlying this road map have themselves broken down and need to be replaced by newer...

There is no more essential task, no more basic information that one could collect, that is critical to survival than the knowledge of one's underlying assumptions. Here are some assumptions about the steel and auto industries that give insight into the many underlying assumptions responsible for...

Consider the plight of the contemporary manager: the forces affecting corporate planning today stem from a wide variety of external sources—public interest groups, changing customer demands, foreign nations, government agencies, and many more. Consequently, the problems that managers and...