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Condition: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Research and development organizations operate in environments characterized by technical complexity, uncertainty, limited resources, demanding schedules, and rapidly changing strategic priorities. Their success depends not only on scientific knowledge and engineering capability but also on the ability of multidisciplinary teams to integrate specialized expertise, communicate effectively, manage uncertainty, and make sound decisions. These challenges become particularly significant when projects involve emerging technologies, distributed teams, and objectives that may evolve throughout the development process.This book was written to provide an integrated perspective on the management and performance of multidisciplinary R&D teams and organizations. It brings together concepts from engineering management, organizational behavior, systems thinking, probability, stochastic modeling, computational simulation, and decision science. Its central premise is that uncertainty should not be treated solely as an obstacle. When it is identified, modeled, and interpreted systematically, uncertainty can provide valuable information for planning, resource allocation, risk mitigation, and organizational learning.Particular attention is given to the relationships among individual competence, team cohesion, communication, technical uncertainty, organizational structure, and project performance. These factors do not operate independently. They form an interconnected system in which decisions and behaviors generate feedback that can either strengthen or weaken organizational performance. Accordingly, the book approaches R&D management as a dynamic process requiring continuous observation, evaluation, adaptation, and learning.The book also examines how stochastic models and computational methods can support management decisions. Monte Carlo simulation, sensitivity analysis, network modeling, risk assessment, and related techniques provide a structured means of exploring possible outcomes when complete information is unavailable. These methods do not eliminate uncertainty or replace managerial judgment. Instead, they help decision-makers understand the range of plausible outcomes, identify influential variables, compare alternative strategies, and select actions that are more robust under changing conditions.The material is intended for engineering managers, R&D leaders, project managers, systems engineers, researchers, graduate students, and professionals working in technology-intensive organizations. Readers with management backgrounds may use the book to develop a better understanding of quantitative modeling and simulation. Readers with engineering or scientific backgrounds may use it to examine the organizational and behavioral dimensions of technical performance. The interdisciplinary presentation is designed to encourage communication between these communities and support a more unified approach to R&D management.This book does not propose that a single model can fully represent the complexity of an R&D organization. Human behavior, technical development, and organizational change cannot be predicted with absolute precision. Nevertheless, carefully constructed models can clarify assumptions, reveal dependencies, test alternative scenarios, and improve the quality and transparency of management decisions. Their greatest value lies not in producing a single definitive forecast but in supporting informed reasoning under uncertainty.Ultimately, the book seeks to contribute to the development of R&D organizations that are more collaborative, adaptive, resilient, and capable of sustained innovation. By connecting human and organizational considerations with stochastic modeling and computational analysis, it offers a framework through which uncertainty can be transformed from an unmanaged source o Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Leadership does not fail because people lack skill or experience.It fails when stress quietly exceeds the leader's capacity to regulate it.In high-risk environments, stress reshapes judgment, narrows attention, and distorts decision-making-often without leaders realizing it is happening. Calm Under Command explains why competent, experienced leaders still make poor calls under pressure, and how regulated leadership preserves clarity, trust, and effectiveness when it matters most.Grounded in neuroscience, psychology, and real-world operational leadership, this book treats stress not as a mindset problem or personal weakness, but as a predictable physiological force that shapes behavior. Rather than offering motivation or platitudes, it provides clear, evidence-based frameworks for understanding how stress, fatigue, and overload affect command presence-and how leaders can prevent these forces from silently running the system.Inside this book, you'll learn how to: - Recognize when stress has pushed you past optimal performance, even when things feel 'under control'- Prevent micromanagement, tunnel vision, and urgency-driven decision errors- Stabilize teams through tone, pacing, and command presence under pressure- Protect judgment and communication under fatigue and sleep debt- Control cognitive tempo without slowing operational response- Recalibrate risk assessment when stress distorts perception- Build leadership systems that hold when willpower and attention are taxed- Teach stress literacy to developing officers and future leadersWritten for fire service officers, first responders, military leaders, healthcare professionals, and anyone responsible for others under pressure, Calm Under Command reframes stress management as a leadership competency-not a personal wellness issue.This is not a book about eliminating stress. Stress sharpens performance-up to a point.Calm under command isn't the absence of urgency.>Calm Under Command is the second book in The Calm Series, following Calm Under Load.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. New in this edition is an expanded risk management emphasis that includes an overview chapter on enterprise risk management and a chapter on decision making under uncertainty designed to help decision makers use the results of risk analysis in practical ways to improve decisions and their outcomes.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. New in this edition is an expanded risk management emphasis that includes an overview chapter on enterprise risk management and a chapter on decision making under uncertainty designed to help decision makers use the results of risk analysis in practical ways to improve decisions and their outcomes.…

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