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Showing posts with label Management. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Management. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

The Failures Lurking Beneath Your Successes

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Sidney Dekker recently published an essay * in which he argues that industrial accidents don’t just pop out of nowhere; rather they could ha...
Friday, July 29, 2022

A Lesson from the Accounting Profession: Don’t Cheat on the Ethics Test

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SEC Order Accounting, like many professions, requires practitioners to regularly demonstrate competence and familiarity with relevant knowle...
Friday, December 10, 2021

Prepping for Threats: Lessons from Risk: A User’s Guide by Gen. Stanley McChrystal.

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Gen. McChrystal was a U.S. commander in Afghanistan; you may remember he was fired by President Obama for making, and allowing subordinates ...
Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Organizational Change and System Dynamics Insights from The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

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The Tipping Point* is a 2002 book by Malcolm Gladwell (who also wrote Blink ) that uses the metaphor of a viral epidemic to explain how som...
Monday, April 1, 2019

Culture Insights from The Speed of Trust by Stephen M.R. Covey

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In The Speed of Trus t,* Stephen M.R. Covey posits that trust is the key competency that allows individuals (especially leaders), gro...
Friday, November 9, 2018

Nuclear Safety Culture: Lessons from Turn the Ship Around! by L. David Marquet

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Turn the Ship Around! * was written by a U.S. Navy officer who was assigned to command a submarine with a poor performance history.  He ad...
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...