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Resilience is an expression of how people, alone or together, cope with everyday situations – large and small – by adjusting their performance to the conditions. An organisation’s performance is resilient if it can function as required
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“By treating team members with respect, it puts another nail in the coffin of the Taylorist industrial approach to employee management.”
― Designing Delivery: Rethinking IT in the Digital Service Economy
― Designing Delivery: Rethinking IT in the Digital Service Economy
“There is almost no human action or decision that cannot be made to look flawed and less sensible in the misleading light of hindsight. It is essential that the critic should keep himself constantly aware of that fact.”1”
― The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'
― The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'
“The intention of dialogue is to reach new understanding and, in doing so, to form a totally new basis from which to think and act. In”
― Dialogue: The Art Of Thinking Together
― Dialogue: The Art Of Thinking Together
“In accident investigation, as in most other human endeavours, we fall prey to the What-You-Look-For-Is-What-You-Find or WYLFIWYF principle. This is a simple recognition of the fact that assumptions about what we are going to see (What-You-Look-For), to a large extent will determine what we actually find (What-You-Find). (The principle is furthermore not limited to accident investigation, but applies to human perception and cognition in general.) In accident investigations, the guiding assumptions are sometimes explicit, for instance when they are given as a directive or objective.
Erik Hollnagel. The ETTO Principle: Efficiency-Thoroughness Trade-Off (Kindle Locations 998-1000). Kindle Edition.”
― The ETTO Principle: Efficiency-Thoroughness Trade-Off
Erik Hollnagel. The ETTO Principle: Efficiency-Thoroughness Trade-Off (Kindle Locations 998-1000). Kindle Edition.”
― The ETTO Principle: Efficiency-Thoroughness Trade-Off
“Planning and doing are separate parts of the same job; they are not separate jobs. There is no work that can be performed effectively unless it contains elements of both. One”
― The Practice of Management: The Foundational Classic on Modern Management Practices—Essential for Professionals and Students
― The Practice of Management: The Foundational Classic on Modern Management Practices—Essential for Professionals and Students
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