Techlash :The Future of the Socially Responsible Tech Organization
Technology has made human lives incomparably better. Civilization as we know it would utterly collapse without it. However, if not properly managed, technology can and will be systematically abused and misuse and thereby become one of the biggest threats to humankind. This open access book applies proactive crisis management to the management of technology organizations to make them more sustainable and socially responsible for the betterment of humankind. It forecasts the unintended consequences of technology and offers methods to counteract it.Technology has made human lives incomparably better. Civilization as we know it would utterly collapse without it. However, if not properly managed, technology can and will be systematically abused and misuse and thereby become one of the biggest threats to humankind. This open access book applies proactive crisis management to the management of technology organizations to make them more sustainable and socially responsible for the betterment of humankind. It forecasts the unintended consequences of technology and offers methods to counteract it.
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Description of Techlash :The Future of the Socially Responsible Tech Organization
Technology has made human lives incomparably better. Civilization as we know it would utterly collapse without it. However, if not properly managed, technology can and will be systematically abused an
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2020 Jul 14
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978-3-030-43279-9
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Ian I. Mitroff is an Adjunct Professor in the College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley. He is also a Senior Investigator in the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management, University of California, Berkeley. He is Professor Emeritus from the Annenberg School of Communication and the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, where he was the Harold Quinton Distinguished Professor of Business Policy. He is the President of the consulting firm Mitroff Crisis Management. He is regarded as the founder of the discipline of Crisis Management. He was the founder and director of the USC Center for Crisis Management. Known for his thinking and writing on a wide range of business and societal issues, Dr. Mitroff is the author of 30 previous books, including "Swans, Swine, and Swindlers: Coping with the Growing Threat of Mega Messes and Mega Crises," "Dirty Rotten Strategies: How We Trick Ourselves and Others into Solving the Wrong Problems Precisely," "A Spiritual Audit of Corporate America," "Smart Thinking for Crazy Times," "The Essential Guide to Managing Corporate Crisis," "The Unbounded Mind" and "Managing Crises Before They Happen." With his wife Donna Mitroff, his latest book is, "Fables and the Art of Leadership: Bring the Wisdom of Mister Rogers to the Workplace."
Ian I. Mitroff
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open accessTheory of the unthinkableManaging techProactive crisis managementOffice for socially responsible technology (OSRT)Chief Technology OfficerChief Officers for Crisis Management and StrategyDialectical thinkingToulmin Argumentation Framework (TAF)Wicked MessesTech courtThe socially responsible tech companyInformation crises
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