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Showing posts with label Decision Making. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Decision Making. Show all posts
Saturday, March 2, 2024

Boeing’s Safety Culture Under the FAA’s Microscope

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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently released its report * on the safety culture (SC) at Boeing.   The FAA Expert Panel was ta...
Thursday, May 25, 2023

The National Academies on Behavioral Economics

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Report cover A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) committee recently published a report * on the contribution...
Monday, June 6, 2022

Guiding People to Better Decisions: Lessons from Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein

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Safetymatters reports on organizational culture, the values and beliefs that underlie an organization’s essential activities.   One such act...
Thursday, July 1, 2021

Making Better Decisions: Lessons from Noise by Daniel Kahneman, Oliver Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein

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The authors of Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment* examine the random variations that occur in judgmental decisions and recommend ways to make...
Monday, December 14, 2020

Implications of Randomness: Lessons from Nassim Taleb

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Most of us know Nassim Nicholas Taleb from his bestseller The Black Swan . However, he wrote an earlier book, Fooled by Randomness * , in w...
Tuesday, August 25, 2020

How to Consider Unknown Unknowns: Hints from McKinsey

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Our July 31, 2020 post on medical errors discussed the importance of the “differential diagnosis” where a doctor thinks “I believe this pat...
Monday, June 29, 2020

A Culture that Supports Dissent: Lessons from In Defense of Troublemakers by Charlan Nemeth

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Charlan Nemeth is a psychology professor at the University of California, Berkeley.  Her research and practical experience inform her conc...
Friday, March 8, 2019

Decision Making, Values, and Culture Change

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Typical New Yorker cover In the nuclear industry, most decisions are at least arguably “hard,” i.e., decision makers can agree on the fa...
Monday, December 3, 2018

Nuclear Safety Culture: Lessons from Factfulness by Hans Rosling

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This book* is about biases that prevent us from making fact-based decisions.  It is based on the author’s world-wide work as a doctor and ...
Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Nuclear Safety Culture: Insights from Principles by Ray Dalio

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Book cover Ray Dalio is the billionaire founder/builder of Bridgewater Associates, an investment management firm.  Principles * catalogs...