John

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about John.


Using Language
John is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Mission Improbabl...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Safety-I and Safe...
John is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Reading for the 2nd time
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
See all 15 books that John is reading…
Book cover for Safety-II in Practice: Developing the Resilience Potentials
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 ...more
Loading...
“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”
William Isaacs, 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.”
Erik Hollnagel, The ETTO Principle: Efficiency-Thoroughness Trade-Off

“If professionals consider one thing “unjust,” it is often this: Split-second operational decisions that get evaluated, turned over, examined, picked apart, and analyzed for months—by people who were not there when the decision was taken, and whose daily work does not even involve such decisions.”
Sidney Dekker, Just Culture: Balancing Safety and Accountability

“By treating team members with respect, it puts another nail in the coffin of the Taylorist industrial approach to employee management.”
Jeff Sussna, Designing Delivery: Rethinking IT in the Digital Service Economy

“Not being able to find a cause is profoundly distressing; it creates anxiety because it implies a loss of control. The desire to find a cause is driven by fear.”
Sidney Dekker, Just Culture: Balancing Safety and Accountability

year in books
Kate Ma...
338 books | 190 friends

Kathlee...
430 books | 143 friends

Jess Ba...
429 books | 230 friends

Simone
1,834 books | 1,520 friends

Marya
31 books | 49 friends

harper ...
1,133 books | 561 friends

Andrew
1,074 books | 222 friends

Kim
Kim
228 books | 159 friends

More friends…


Polls voted on by John

Lists liked by John