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Showing posts with label Mental Model. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mental Model. 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...
Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Systems Engineering’s Role in Addressing Society’s Problems

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Guru Madhavan, a National Academy of Engineering senior scholar, has a new book about how engineering can contribute to solving society’s mo...
Friday, October 6, 2023

A Straightforward Recipe for Changing Culture

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Source: COS website We recently came across a clear, easily communicated road map for implementing cultural change .*  We’ll provide some ba...
Friday, August 4, 2023

Real Systems Pursue Goals

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System Model Control Panel On March 10, 2023 we posted about a medical journal editorial that advocated for incorporating more systems think...
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...
Friday, March 10, 2023

A Systems Approach to Diagnosis in Healthcare Emergency Departments

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JAMA logo A recent op-ed* in JAMA advocated greater use of systems thinking to reduce diagnostic errors in emergency departments (EDs).  Th...
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...
Wednesday, February 2, 2022

A Massive Mental Model: Lessons from Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio

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At Safetymatters, we have emphasized several themes over the years, including the importance of developing complete and realistic mental mod...