Safetymatters: Organizational and safety culture information, analysis and management

A reader recently asked: “Do you subscribe to Edgar Schein's culture model?”  The short-form answer is a qualified “Yes.”  Prof. Schei...

Bob Cudlin recently posted on the work of David Snowden, a decision theorist and originator of the Cynefin decision construct.  Snowden’s ...

In this post we call your attention to a current research paper * and Wall Street Journal summary article ** that sheds some light on how ...

Dave Snowden In this post we highlight a provocative, and we believe, accurate criticism of the approach taken by many management scient...

In September, 2011 the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and the International Atomic Energy (IAEA) held a workshop for regulators and industry...

As we introduced in our prior post on this subject ( Results 1 ), we are presenting some safety culture simulation results based on a h...

“Cognitive dissonance” is the tension that arises from holding two conflicting thoughts in one’s mind at the same time.  Here’s a candida...

As promised in our June 29, 2012 post , we are taking the next step to incorporate our mental models of safety culture and decision makin...