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Wicked Problems, Workable Solutions
Lessons from a Public Life
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2014
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After five decades of studying how Americans respond to public issues, Daniel Yankelovich presents a strategy to nurture the greater public wisdom necessary for modern society to confront its most wicked problems. Having been an advisor to major corporations and influential media, business and government organizations, Yankelovich is a leading public opinion expert who has had a long career studying, questioning, and reporting on national issues, trends, and opinions. Stagnant incomes, blocked social mobility, political polarization, dysfunctional educational, criminal, and health care systems and global instability plague the welfare of not only the United States, but also the entire world. By instituting a few powerful innovations we can revolutionize today’s inattentive public into a thoughtful, action-oriented populous. Yankelovich shares the philosophical foundation of his successful career and revisits some of his breakthrough experiences, drawing insightful conclusions applicable to our current condition. Full of stories of how destinies can change when people abandon ingrained, unproductive thinking habits, Wicked Problems, Workable Solutions lays out a pragmatic design to reboot democracy and lead our society forward into a more promising future.
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Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-4480-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-4481-8
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
213
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS No access
1 Introduction: America’s Wicked Problems No access
2 Retrofitting the Plumbing of Democracy No access
3 A Plea for Adaptive Sanity No access
4 Four Wrong Turns No access
5 Why We Can’t Rely on Our Culture No access
6 Straight and Crooked Thinking No access
7 Caring and Stewardship No access
8 Elite Forms of Groupthink No access
9 From Martin Heidegger to Lloyd Blankfein No access
10 Transitioning to a Thoughtful Public—A Strategy No access
11 An Accidental Profession No access
12 Starting My Own Firm No access
13 Part Science . . . No access
14 Part Circus . . . No access
15 Smart People, Dumb Mistakes No access
16 New Methods of Conducting Research No access
17 Research Designed for Action No access
18 Never Present More than One Idea at a Time No access
19 Tracking the Cultural Revolution No access
20 A Special Brand of Rebellion No access
21 Who’s Afraid of the “Generation Gap”? No access
22 High-Risk Experiments without a Net No access
23 America Tells Itself a New Story No access
24 The Yankelovich Monitor No access
25 Founding the Public Agenda No access
26 The Elitist Double Whammy No access
27 Missed Chances to Regain the Public Trust No access
28 Coming to Public Judgment No access
29 Losing the Battle with the News Media No access
30 How My Philosophy for Living Evolved No access
31 Dinner with Quine No access
32 How Scientism Nearly Devoured Philosophy No access
33 My Wrong Map Problem No access
34 A Look at Existentialism No access
35 Finding a Better Framework No access
36 Applying Philosophy to Psychoanalysis No access
37 “Ego and Instinct” in Retrospect No access
38 The Mind-set of the Iron Cage: Prying It Open No access
39 Don’t Fight Human Nature! No access
40 Co-evolution No access
41 Culture Is Inescapable . . . No access
42 Structuring Your Own Philosophy for Living No access
