Ian I. Mitroff is Harold Quinton Distinguished Professor of Business Policy and Director, USC Center for Crisis Management, Graduate School of Business, at the University of Southern California. Harold A. Linstone is University Professor Emeritus of Systems Science at Portland State University, and editor-in-chief of the journal Technological Forecasting and Social Change.
"Must reading."--Victor Leo, Ford Executive Development Center
"An important book."--Neil Postman, New York University
"Mitroff and Linstone once again come at us like warriors. They
know we continually rely on old habits of thought and that we are
generating the very complexity we dread. Must reading for
purposeful business leaders who want inquire into and systemic
approach to dissolve the "mess."--Victor Leo, Ford Executive
Development Center
"Mitroff and Linstone...argue, convincingly, that we cannot solve
today's problems using outmoded models of thinking."--Booklist
"A rigorous...study of the thought processes that govern business
decision-making."--Kirkus Reviews
"A mind-stretching experience. It rises above particular
disciplines to bring to bear a rounded approach to the management
of technologies. It is refreshingly free from conventional thinking
and conventional language. It is, in short, unbounded."--Daniel
Schorr, Senior News Analyst, National Public Radio
"Most of us barely have time to think. Mitroff and Linstone
actually think about thinking, and provoke us to do the
same."--Robert B. Reich, Harvard University
"The Unbounded Mind is an important book. Its authors are learned
men whose capacities for creative and analytic thinking are
demonstrations of the kind of thinking their book urges us to
learn. Their book is a guide to how our minds can effectively
manage the future."--Neil Postman, New York University
"A book that reaches widely, indeed globally. It is very innovative
and provocative."--Amitai Etzioni, The George Washington
University
"Because of its substantive content and innovative unbounded
thinking model, this work is highly recommended to graduate
business students, corporate executives, entrepreneurs, and to
general readers with an analytical and philosophical
orientation."--Choice
"It is a concise book on the fascinating subject of decision making
in a world that is becoming more complex day by day. It is written
by two renowned scholars....I think everybody will find the book a
pleasure to read, as the authors offer valuable insights into the
current state of affairs and masterfully propose the future course
of action. The authors ask and answer very pertinent questions
regarding our "thinking process" in this book....[The authors
exhibit] an eloquent and effective writing style....Having
extensive, first-hand experience with the curricula of business
schools, the authors suggest that in order to compete in the
present world, the
most essential requirement is to break the chains of traditional
business thinking. Thus the rationale for the book is the
inablility of old ideas to meetn the challenges of our age that
makes new thinking more critical than ever."--Prof. Nawaz Sharif,
Technological Forecasting and Social Change
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