Organization at the Limit (PDF)

The book offers important insight relevant to Corporate, Government
and Global organizations management in general. The internationally
recognised authors tackle vital issues in decision making, how
organizational risk is managed, how can technological and
organizational complexities interact, what are the impediments for
effective learning and how large, medium, and small organizations
can, and in fact must, increase their resilience. Managers,
organizational consultants, expert professionals, and training
specialists; particularly those in high risk organizations, may
find the issues covered in the book relevant to their daily work
and a potential catalyst for thought and action.

* A timely analysis of the Columbia disaster and the
organizational lessons that can be learned from it.

* Includes contributions from those involved in the Investigation
Board report into the incident.

* Tackles vital issues such as the role of time pressures and
goal conflict in decision making, and the impediments for effective
learning.

* Examines how organizational risk is managed and how
technological and organizational complexities interact.

* Assesses how large, medium, and small organizations can, and in
fact must, increase their resilience.

* Questions our eagerness to embrace new technologies, yet
reluctance to accept the risks of innovation.

* Offers a step by step understanding of the complex factors that
led to disaster.