Introduction

1 John F. Kennedy, “We choose to go to the moon” speech, Houston, 1962.

2 Marty Bahamonde testimony before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs, October 20, 2005, as reported in MSNBC.com: “Official: FEMA didn’t heed storm warnings”, Oct. 20, 2005, p1.

3 Douglas Brinkley, The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast (New York: HarperCollins, 2006), 37.

4 Ibid., 323

5 Principles of Coast Guard Operations from Coast Guard Publication 1 - U.S. Coast Guard: America’s Maritime Guardian, p. 82.

6 Alan Deutschman, “Change or Die,” Fast Company, May 2005, p.55.

7 Haridimos Tsoukas and Christian Knudsen, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory: Meta-Theoretical Perspectives ...

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