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Case studies of business and management success tend to focus on factors such as leadership, innovation, competition, and geography, but what about good fortune? This book highlights luck as a key idea for business and society.

The author provides insights from economics, sociology, political science, philosophy, and psychology to create a brief intellectual history of luck. In positioning luck as a key idea in management, the book analyzes various facets of fortune such as randomness, serendipity, and opportunity. Often overlooked given psychological bias toward meritocratic explanations, this book quantifies luck to establish the idea in a more central role in understanding variations in business performance.

In bringing the concept of luck in from the periphery, this concise book is a readable overview of management which will help students, scholars, and reflective practitioners see the subject in a new light.

The book provides an overview of legal questions in regard to open science, with a particular focus on issues of copyright and data protection.

This book is a collection of challenging cases in executive coaching from the annals of the ESMT-Berlin Coaching Colloquia - yearly events for experienced professionals committed to advancement of the coaching profession. In the period of 2009-2018, hundreds of difficult cases were discussed by coaches from all over the world in an intensive but safe environment of the ESMT Berlin Campus. This volume presents a few of those cases to the interested public and offers a unique opportunity to explore the work of coaches from within and to reflect upon ways professionals approach ambiguous moments in their practice. The cases do not serve the purpose to endorse or critique a particular coaching choice, but rather give the reader an opportunity to think about their own ways of handling professional challenges in coaching engagements. The book can be an exciting self-development tool or instructional material for courses in coaching training or supervision.

With the digitization of nearly all aspects of life, our societies increasingly depend on the resilience and security of computing and communication technologies. Hence, the protection of information technology (IT) against unauthorized access, attack, and accidental failure, has become a priority for nation-states around the world. Throughout the past one or two decades, most countries have adopted strategies, policies, and practical steps to protect the security of IT and critical infrastructures within their territory, and, by extension, their citizens. These practices are generally subsumed under the umbrella of cybersecurity. The book provides an analysis of the evolution of cybersecurity policy in Germany over the past two and a half decades. It highlights development lines as well as upcoming strategic challenges of the German cybersecurity policy.

Even today the reality of error management in some organizations is simple: “Don’t make mistakes." But it is still often centred around quality control, with Six Sigma Black Belts seeking to eradicate errors with an unattainable goal of zero. But the best organizations have moved on. They understand that mistakes happen, be they systemic or human. They have realized that rather than being stigmatized, errors have to be openly discussed, analysed, and used as a source for learning. How Could This Happen? collects insights from the leading academics in this field – covering the prerequisites for error reporting, such as psychological safety, organizational learning and innovation, safety management systems, and the influence of senior leadership behaviour on the reporting climate. This research is complemented by contributions from practitioners who write about their professional experiences of error management. They provide not only ideas for implementation but also offer an inside view of highly demanding work environments, for example, managing innovation at BMW, flight operations in the military, and commanding nuclear submarines. Every organization makes mistakes. Not every organization learns from them. It’s the job of leaders to create the culture and processes that enable that to happen.

Ich irre, also bin ich, schrieb Augustinus, und Benjamin Franklin war der Meinung, die Geschichte der menschlichen Irrtümer sei interessanter als diejenige ihrer Erfindungen; doch wenn wir uns irren und Fehler machen, ärgern wir uns und fühlen uns peinlich berührt. Am unangenehmsten sind uns die Fehler, die uns geschäftlich unterlaufen, denn auf dieser Ebene ist das Publikum in der Regel größer als im privaten Kreis. Dass diese Einstellung verhängnisvoll ist, demonstriert Jan Hagen auf faszinierende Weise anhand einschlägiger Beispiele aus der zivilen und militärischen Luftfahrt. Ebenso eindrucksvoll beschreibt er, wie dort nach und nach ein einschlägiges Fehlermanagement entwickelt wurde, die Widerstände, die auf dem Weg dahin überwunden werden mussten, und die langsame aber letztlich erfolgreiche Generierung jener sachlichen, fehlerdiagnostischen Kultur, die heute jedes moderne Unternehmen braucht.

沃尔特·布斯·冯库伯、阿道夫·g.柯能贝格、 彼得·卡宇特、乌里奇·林豪夫、本哈德·裴仁斯等 、王煦逸所*的《管理学概论--非管理类知识背景高 级经理通用》一书，**部分介绍了企业管理的理念 ，基于这些理念，企业能够在市场竞争中立足，这里 涉及企业环境分析和由此得出的企业战略、客户导向 以及资方导向。面对急剧变化的市场环境，企业必须 做出反应，对企业的结构和流程做出有针对性的调整 。第二部分将介绍有关的措施：法律形式的选择、公 司治理、组织构架等。*后，本书论及财务方面的论 题：成本管理、投资核算、兼并重组管理、财务管理 、价值导向效益分析以及财务报告（第三和第四部分 ）?br/> 本书按照模块化组织：每章都是一个独立的单元 ，可以在不涉及其他章节的情况下独立阅读。同时， 各模块之间又存在有机的联系。每章所附的习题帮助 读者加深对于各专题的理解?br/> 本书的目标读者是中国非管理类知识背景的企业 经理，他们希望通过自学、emba项目的学习或者专项 培训研读管理核心思想、方法和工具等。此外，本书 也有助于有多年管理经验的专家*新管理知识。通过 本书，读者可以得到有关企业管理方面系统的经验导 向概观。本书基于西欧企业管理的基本理念，并通过 德国的案例进行通俗易懂的阐述?br/>