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Showing posts with label Decision Making. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Decision Making. Show all posts
Sunday, May 3, 2026

Applying Systems Thinking to the Healthcare Provider Burnout Problem

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A recent opinion piece* in JAMA Online First caught our attention.   The authors urge the healthcare industry to apply lessons learned from...
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...