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Showing posts with label Decisions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Decisions. Show all posts
Friday, December 1, 2017

Nuclear Safety Culture: Focus on Decision Making

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McKinsey Five Fifty cover We have long held that decision making (DM) is a key artifact reflecting the state of a nuclear organizati...
Friday, January 27, 2017

Leadership, Decisions, Systems Thinking and Nuclear Safety Culture

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AcciMap Excerpt We recently read a paper* that echoes some of the themes we emphasize on Safetymatters, viz., leadership, decisions and ...
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Monday, January 16, 2017

Nuclear Safety Culture and the Shrinking U.S. Nuclear Plant Population

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In the last few years, nuclear plant owners have shut down or scheduled for shutdown 17 units totaling over 14,000 MW.  Over half of these...
Monday, January 4, 2016

How Top Management Decisions Shape Culture

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A brief article* in the December 2015 The Atlantic magazine asks “What was VW thinking?” then reviews a few classic business cases to show...
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Thursday, January 29, 2015

Safety Culture at Chevron’s Richmond, CA Refinery

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The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) released its final report * on the August 2012 fire at the Chevron refi...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014

GM’s CEO Revealing Revelation

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GM CEO Mary Barra As most of our readers are aware General Motors has been much in the news of late regarding a safety issue associate...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Safety Culture at Tohoku Electric vs. Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO)

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Fukushima No. 1 (Daiichi) An op-ed* in the Japan Times asserts that the root cause of the Fukushima No. 1 (Daiichi) plant’s failures fol...
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Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Left Brain, Right Stuff: How Leaders Make Winning Decisions by Phil Rosenzweig

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In this new book* Rosenzweig extends the work of Kahneman and other scholars to consider real-world decisions.  He examines how the conten...