Drift into Failure
by Sidney Dekker
Dekker on how organizations slide into disaster through locally rational decisions under pressure, with complexity theory as the lens. Challenging and important.
Read it if…
you investigate or prevent failures.
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Skip it if…
you want a simple root-cause method.
Try instead: Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me) →
Three things you will actually use
- Failure is drift, not a single cause.
- Local rationality.
- Watch for normalization.
Do this first
Read the chapter on the Alaska Airlines crash.
Our verdict
How organizations drift.
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