The Tyrant's Mirror - Part 2: Power's Cognitive Distortions: What Absolute Authority Does to Judgment
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How power alters judgment through isolation and distorted information.
Leadership and Crisis
The Tyrant's Mirror: Power, Psychology, and Moral Collapse
·149 words·1 min
An exploration of how power corrupts through psychological and systemic mechanisms.
The Tyrant's Mirror - Part 1: The Tyrant's Inner Narrative: How Power Justifies Itself
·440 words·3 mins
How tyrants begin with sincere narratives that justify their actions.
The Devil’s Jaw – Part 2: The Trial of Tradition and the Nelsonian Imperative
·851 words·4 mins
The aftermath of the Honda Point disaster, including the court martial and the establishment of new naval principles for leadership and safety.
The Devil’s Jaw: A Post-Mortem of the Navy’s Greatest Peacetime Disaster
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A historical analysis of the Honda Point disaster, examining the systemic failures that led to the greatest peacetime naval tragedy in U.S. history.
The Devil’s Jaw – Part 1: Momentum, Mist, and the Death of Squadron 11
·987 words·5 mins
Exploring the events leading to the Honda Point disaster and the systemic failures that caused seven destroyers to wreck on the California coast.
The Uncredentialed Leader – Part 4: The Engineer Who Built the Wrong Dam
·1041 words·5 mins
William Mulholland and the catastrophic failure of the St. Francis Dam
The Uncredentialed Leader – Part 3: The Banker Who Couldn't Save the Bank
·929 words·5 mins
George Harrison's constrained response to the 1929 stock market crash
The Uncredentialed Leader – Part 2: The General Who Refused to Retreat
·949 words·5 mins
Friedrich Paulus and the doomed defense of Stalingrad
The Uncredentialed Leader
·326 words·2 mins
Exploring the perils of leadership when expertise meets unprecedented challenges through historical case studies