Mark David Mandeles (11 results)

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Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Second Printing. 191 Pages Indexed. Light crease to front bottom corner. No other defects noted. The B-52 and Jet Propulsion: A Case Study in Organizational Innovation is a coherent and nonpolemical discussion of the revolution in military affairs, a hot topic in the national security arena. Mark Mandeles examines an interesting topic, how can the military better understand, manage, and evaluate technological development programs. We see Murphy's Law (anything that can go wrong, will go wrong) in operation. No matter how carefully the military designs, plans, and programs the process of technological development, inevitably, equipment, organizations, and people will challenge the desired expectations. Mandeles argues convincingly that recognizing the inevitability of error may be the single most important factor in the design of effective organizations and procedures to foster and enhance innovative technology and concepts. Contents: Introduction, Innovation and Military Revolutions, Logic and Procedure of Analysis, Prelude Jet Propulsion and The Air Force, The Introduction of Jet Propulsion Into /The B-52, and Conclusion. Illustrated with photographs of Whittle Engine, B-36A Peacemaker, Lockheed XP80A Shooting Star, J47 Engine in XB-47, Fat Man, Douglas A3D Skywarrior, Boeing B-50 Superfortress, and Northrop's YB-49.

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Softbound. Condition: Very Good. Small broadsheet newspaper, 8 pp. with a center crease, one b/w photo and four political cartoons A radical left-wing newspaper that critiqued the Jewish community without demonizing it. Anti-Fatah and probably influenced by Shomer Ha-Tzair. With an article by Albert Memmi and a poem by Julia Vinograd. Cover is illustrated with a large drawing by Madeline Rosenstein. "This paper is being edited by a group of radicals who are concerned with the tendencies of our radical friends' positions on the Middle East situation. Within the United States our group consists of members of SDS, The Resistance, and the Peace and Freedom Party, etc. This group is completely unorganized ; we came to know each other through the common ties of the radical nature of our political ideology and our deep concern for social justice. We recognized that it was no quirk of fate that our Jewish backgrounds gave support to these two related viewpoints. It is in this sense that we feel a deep commitment to Jewish thought. Now to the raison d' etre of the paper. As mentioned earlier, one of the reasons that so many of us came together to start this paper, was a growing concern with our radical communities' increasingly anti-Israel posture. As radicals we find this inappropriate, at best. We believe that the easy acceptance of empty metaphors and lack of desire to make meaningful distinctions between vague analogies concerning the Middle East does irreparable damage to the morality of the movement."--taken from "Our Raison d' Etre", page [1], Vol. 1, no. 1 (January [1969]).

Softbound. Condition: Very Good. Small broadsheet newspaper, 8 pp. with a center crease, a few b/w photos and drawings A radical left-wing newspape. This issue primarily focused on Soviet Jewry and Soviet Anti-Semitism. The front page has a phto of Boris Kochubiyesky, a Soviet-Jewish prisoner in a labor camp, imprisoned for Zionist activity. "This paper is being edited by a group of radicals who are concerned with the tendencies of our radical friends' positions on the Middle East situation. Within the United States our group consists of members of SDS, The Resistance, and the Peace and Freedom Party, etc. This group is completely unorganized ; we came to know each other through the common ties of the radical nature of our political ideology and our deep concern for social justice. We recognized that it was no quirk of fate that our Jewish backgrounds gave support to these two related viewpoints. It is in this sense that we feel a deep commitment to Jewish thought. Now to the raison d' etre of the paper. As mentioned earlier, one of the reasons that so many of us came together to start this paper, was a growing concern with our radical communities' increasingly anti-Israel posture. As radicals we find this inappropriate, at best. We believe that the easy acceptance of empty metaphors and lack of desire to make meaningful distinctions between vague analogies concerning the Middle East does irreparable damage to the morality of the movement."--taken from "Our Raison d' Etre", page [1], Vol. 1, no. 1 (January [1969]).

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Soft cover. Illustrations, photographs. xv, 191 pages clean and tight. The B-52 and Jet Propulsion: A Case Study in Organizational Innovation is a coherent and nonpolemical discussion of the revolution in military affairs, a hot topic in the national security arena. Mark Mandeles examines an interesting topic, how can the military better understand, manage, and evaluate technological development programs. We see Murphy's Law (anything that can go wrong, will go wrong) in operation. No matter how carefully the military designs, plans, and programs the process of technological development, inevitably, equipment, organizations, and people will challenge the desired expectations. Mandeles argues convincingly that recognizing the inevitability of error may be the single most important factor in the design of effective organizations and procedures to foster and enhance innovative technology and concepts. The book focuses on the introduction of jet propulsion into the B-52. This case study illustrates the reality that surprises and failures are endemic to development programs where information and knowledge are indeterminate, ambiguous, and imperfect. Mandeles' choice of the B-52 to illustrate this process is both intriguing and apt. The military had no coherent search process inevitably leading to the choice of a particular technology; nor was decision making concerning the B-52 development program coherent or orderly. Different mixtures of participants, problems, and solutions came together at various times to make decisions about funding or to review the status of performance projections and requirements. Three aspects of the B-52's history are striking because they challenge conventional wisdom about rationally managed innovation. First, Air Force personnel working on the B-52 program did not obtain the aircraft they assumed they would get when the program began. Second, the development process did not conform to idealized features of a rational program. While a rationally organized program has clear goals, adequate information, and well-organized and attentive leadership, the B-52 development process exhibited substantial disagreement over, and revision of, requirements or goals, and ambiguous, imperfect, and changing information. Third, the "messy" development process, as described in the book, forestalled premature closure on a particular design and spurred learning and the continuous introduction of new knowledge into the design as the process went along. Military innovations involve questions about politics, cooperation and coordination, and social benefits, and like other development efforts, there appears to be no error-free method to predict at the outset the end results of any given program. This study offers a major lesson to today's planners: improving the capacity of a number of organizations with overlapping jurisdictions to interact enhances prospects to innovate new weapons and operational concepts. We can mitigate bureaucratic pathologies by fostering interaction among government and private organizations. The B-52 and Jet Propulsion integrates a detailed historical case study with a fine understanding of the literature on organization and innovation. It is a story of decision making under conditions of uncertainty, ambiguity, and disagreement. In the pages that follow those who plan, manage, and criticize technological development programs will find new insights about the process of learning how to make new things. Size: 21.6 x 0.8 x 27.9 cm.

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