Last month, the Transocean company announced “the best year in safety performance in our company’s history” and paid millions of dollars in Executive bonuses. These are the folks who built and staffed the Deepwater Horizon – and lost 9 of their own people the day it exploded. This announcement came only a few weeks ahead of […]
… learning by our own mistakes!
No matter how good we think we are, to maintain a skill or habit we need to practice it – and regularly. Once a year is probably not going to cut it. For many years I travelled extensively, and at times would have been taking an international trip at least once a month. I would […]
… learning from other people’s learning
Recently Alex Fullick wrote a two-part post on his Stoneroads Blog outlining some learnings from the Japanese Earthquake/Tsunami. Alex always makes good points and offers adoptable suggestions – you will find Part 1 with 7 learnings and Part 2 with another 11. I encourage you to go and read Alex’s posts. I made an initial comment on […]
… ritual and resilience
Here in Australia we have just finished a 5 day weekend. This year the Easter Weekend (normally 4 days) occured at the same time as the ANZAC Day public holiday. For the benefit of international readers ANZAC Day is a national day of rememberance for those who fought and died in war. It commemorates the […]
… carrier grade redundancy!
Another case of the ‘Titanic Effect’? Carrier grade redundancy is a term used in voice/data communications to imply a very high level of redundancy – perhaps the mythical no single point of failure even! No matter how much we invest in redundancy it is still possible to fail. A week or so back it was […]
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