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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“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.”
― Just Culture: Balancing Safety and Accountability
― Just Culture: Balancing Safety and Accountability
“We are in need of inquiry into the epistemology of practice. What is the kind of knowing in which competent practitioners engage? How is professional knowing like and unlike the kinds of knowledge presented in academic textbooks, scientific papers, and learned journals? In what sense, if any, is there intellectual rigor in professional practice?”
― The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action
― The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action
“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 Practice of Management
“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.”
― Just Culture: Balancing Safety and Accountability
― 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.”
― Designing Delivery: Rethinking IT in the Digital Service Economy
― Designing Delivery: Rethinking IT in the Digital Service Economy
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