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Everybody´s Business is a succinct analysis of the factors that led to the founding of American business schools and why they are the way they are. Mitroff, Alpaslan, and O´Connor consider why current business schools do not give students the knowledge and the tools they need to deal with today´s complex, messy problems and systems.

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1. The Argument 2. Digging Deeper - Jungian Psychology 3. What Is a System? What Is a Mess? 4. The Nature of Human Nature - The Psychodynamics of Everyday Life 5. The Management of Knowledge - Systems Age Inquiry 6. Heuristics for Managing Messes 7. How We Got into the Mess and Prospects for Getting Out

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Author Ian I. Mitroff: Ian I. Mitroff is Senior Research Associate at the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, USA; Professor Emeritus of the University of Southern California, USA; and President of Mitroff Crisis Management. Author Can M. Alpaslan: Can M. Alpaslan is Professor in the Department of Management at California State University, Northridge, USA. Author Ellen S. O´Connor: Ellen S. O´Connor is a self-employed Researcher.

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