World Health Organization | 1958
The World Health Organization has long recognized the need for an international agreement and cooperation to meet the requirements for safe and potable water supplies.
The status of water treatment and quality in the Member States of the World Health Organization was the subject of a questionnaire circulated in 1953. The replies clearly indicated the magnitude of the problem and the need for attention by the World Health Organization.
Lees verderAssuring High Performance in an Age of Complexity.
Karl E. Weick and Kathleen M. Sutcliffe | August 2015 (original 2001)
Improve your company’s ability to avoid or manage crises! ‘Managing the Unexpected’, Third Edition, is a thoroughly revised text that offers an updated look at the groundbreaking ideas explored in the first and second editions.
Revised to reflect events emblematic of the unique challenges that organisations have faced in recent years, including bank failures, intelligence failures, quality failures, and other organisational misfortunes, often sparked by organisational actions, this critical book focuses on why some organisations are better able to sustain high performance in the face of unanticipated change.
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Mark van Twist en Paul Frissen | 2024
Als we over leiderschap spreken – wat wij bijna nooit doen en eigenlijk ook liever niet willen – dan is dat niet in een taal met uitroeptekens, maar met vraagtekens.
Ook termen als vooruitgang, rationalisering en modernisering, stippen op de horizon en neuzen dezelfde kant op, koers en richting, opgave en opdracht, en transities en ‘paradigma- shifts’ willen we bij voorkeur vermijden.
Lees verderThe birth of Public Risk Management Organisation (PRIMO)
Jack Kruf* | May 2005
Last month, on April 1, 2005, the Executive Committee of UDITE, the network of local government Chief Executives across Europe, met in Strasbourg to discuss ‘public risk management’ as a new idea. City managers from across Europe looked forward to a newly proposed approach, which Alan Vendelbo, president of UDITE, put at the top of the agenda.
It was clear from the start that they believed it could strengthen their role and function in supporting politics, society, and their organisations. Current events, social attacks, and out-of-control budgets or projects have raised the importance of proactive thinking about public values, targets, and their risks. Here is a short personal impression. I was there on this day.
Lees verderJack Kruf | April 2024 (update from August 2016)
What is resilience? Well, there is no simple answer to this. Especially not regarding a city’s ecosystem. The concept, you might say, is in development across different sciences and has recently entered the public governance domain related to society’s social-ecological system.
Can resilience be measured as an indicator of an ecosystem’s state? How are the living and non-living factors of the measured system calculated? Can it create true insight into the tone of the city, society, and nature?
Resilience is the new buzzword among public leaders and managers, but it has played an essential role in natural ecosystems for millions of years. It was launched in 2013 with 100 Resilient Cities as a relatively new concept of thinking and acting from the government’s perspective. But what is it about? The ability to endure stress and still perform, or the capacity to recover after a catastrophe? Maybe both.
Lees verderA Friendship that Changed the World
Michael Lewis | 2017, W.W. Norton & Company
This is the extraordinary story of the two men whose ideas changed the world. Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky met in war-torn 1960s Israel. Both were gifted young psychology professors: Kahneman, a rootless son of Holocaust survivors who saw the world as a problem to be solved, and Tversky, a voluble, instinctual blur of energy.
In this breathtaking new book, Michael Lewis tells the extraordinary story of a relationship that became a shared mind: one which created the field of behavioural economics, revolutionising everything from Big Data to medicine, from how we are governed to how we spend, from high finance to football.
Lees verderPRIMO Res Public
To understand what is happening, make sense of the publications (from different sciences and schools), interpret the frameworks and translate the myriad of languages related to public governance of value and risk, it is wise to reduce the dictionary with concepts as are starting points of our organisation and for our members and network.
It serves as a compass in diagnosis, design, and decision-making. These tools are theoretical concepts and practical aids that help to get not lost in translation. Especially the dictionary of risk is a thick one with hundreds of interpretations. Many pretend to be or want to be the standard.
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PRIMO Res Publica 