Serious project failures can be tragedies. Borrowing the term from Aristotle, management researchers sometimes refer to a peripety when chaotic suddenly finds successful path towards completion. But Aristotle requires tragedies have sad ending, and in his Poetics, reversal (peripeteia) is paired with recognition (anagnorisis), which might closer transitory event projects. In late antiquity, we ...

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A book on the Mary Bell case acts, once again, as a depressing reminder that psychiatric facilities for children and adolescents are dangerously inadequate and that, until we devote enough resources and mobilise the right skills, further tragedies may still occur. Gitta Sereny's clear and readable book* will help many people, who had only the Press accounts to guide them, to make some sense of ...