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> The controllers, acting against established tradition and procedures of their office, Similar to Chernobyl

• lb1lf 10y ago
  I believe behaviour like this is an (almost) unavoidable result of any large, rigid structure - I see it myself at work on occasion. Basically, the collective expectation of success is so strong that if you have to report that something didn't go according to plan, you are strongly identified with the failure whether you can be blamed or not - with loss of reputation, career crash, off to Siberia, whatever being the result. So - when things start to go wrong, you have every incentive to try anything and everything which MAY bring the situation back under control - because, after all, you're already left holding the bag, anyway. This is a brilliant recipe for st-fan interaction escalation.
  • ethbro 10y ago
    There was an article by a crisis management expert I read where he noted that one of the first exercises he does with a group is to ask them to come up with possible scenarios for failure. Thus at least giving explicit permission to enumerate things that could go wrong.