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Resilience : why things bounce back /

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All systems break down. Some bounce back, others do not. This is a book about why. Covering business, economic, geographic and social systems, Zolli uncovers a wealth of absorbing examples--from the link between US oil prices and the recent 'tortilla riots' in Mexico to what was really hap...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zolli, Andrew
Other Authors: Healy, Ann Marie
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Free Press, [2012]
Edition:1st Free Press hardcover ed.
Subjects:
Fault tolerance (Engineering)
Stability.
Hysteresis.
Resilience (Personality trait)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the resilence imperative
  • Robust, yet fragile
  • Sense, scale, swarm
  • The power of clusters
  • The resilient mind
  • Cooperation when it counts
  • Cognitive diversity
  • Communities that bounce back
  • The translational leader
  • Bringing resilience home
  • Acknowledgments
  • Organizations we admire
  • Notes
  • Index.