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Index
absolute determinism, 320
accidents. See mistakes/accidents
accountability, 180
acculturation, 50–3
Adventure Consultants, 4–5, 101–2, 105–17, 118–21, 122–4
advocacy decision-making, 65, 69, 202–3
agents of change, 216–8, 220, 248–9
agility, 317–8
airplane crashes, 9, 20, 311–6
Åland Islands, 148–9
Aldrich, Arnold, 83–4
amygdala hijack, 263, 266–7
anchoring trap, 273–4
Android operating system, 32
Andropov, Yuri, 307
anger, 263–5, 266–7
anti-Semitism, 267–8
Apollo space missions, 76
Apollo 13 space shuttle, 75–85, 326 -6
Apollo 13: To the Edge and Back (film), 85
Apple, 134
Ariely, Dan, 257–60
authentic leaders
importance of, 133
NASA, 172, 174, 181–2
as rare, 192
roles of, 135
authority/experts. See also charismatic leadership
in collectivist cultures, 146–7
and mental security, 88
and mistakes, 60
Mount Everest climb, 115–6, 123–4
NASA, 170–1
shock experiment, 42–4
Tenerife airport disaster, 312
United Airlines 1978 crash, 313–4
Vietnam War, 203
Baby Boomers, 289–90, 332 -4
Bagian, James P., 7–8, 171
Ball, Gary, 105
Ballmer, Steve, 48
Bargh, John, 271–2
baseball bat and ball puzzle, 269–70
Bass, Richard, 4–5, 105
Bay of Pigs, 69–70
Behavioral Science Technology Solutions (BST), 176–81
/> Beidleman, Neal, 119
Berlin Brandenburg Airport, 57–8
Big Data, 287–8, 297
bioengineering, 297–8
black swan events. See also individual events
and charismatic leaders of conformist team, 53
definition, 19, 21–2
global, 22
individuals, 23
and inquiry decision-making, 85–7
organizational, 23
as positive, 21–2
preparing for, 23
and process, 90–1
sectoral, 22
and signs, 29–30, 33
small group, 23
and timing, 88–9
and turkey syndrome, 33, 90
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Taleb), 19
blockchain technology, 289
Bontade, Stefano, 232, 233
book overview, 11–13
Boom Technology, 326 -10
Boukreev, Anatoli, 109–10, 119–20, 328 -7
brains
and accelerating technology, 286
amygdala hijack, 263, 266–7
capacity of, 296
computer brains, 297
hostages to, 281
overview, 260–1
and sexual drive, 261–2
and wine, 277–8
Branson, Richard, 326 -10
Breashears, David, 105
Brin, Sergey, 21–2
British Aircraft Corporation, 54–7
British Petroleum (BP), 5, 23
Bruce, Charles Granville, 102
Bruch, Heike, 241–3
Bruno, Giordano, 51–2, 326 -9
Bulgakov, Mikhail, 299
Burleson, Todd, 116–7
Buscetta, Tommaso, 234–5
Bush, George W., 329 -11
bystander effect, 184–5
Camus, Albert, 320
Castro, Fidel, 69–70
Catch-22, 24–5
cell phones, 31–2
