Confirmation-Bias

The Mind of the Maker: Psychology of Engineering Failure 1 The Illusion of Invulnerability: How the Titanic's Designers Dismissed the Iceberg Threat 2 The Certainty Trap: Challenger and the Deadly Cost of Overconfidence 3 The Bureaucracy of Denial: Chernobyl and the System That Couldn't Say Stop 4 The Sunk Cost Bridge: Tacoma Narrows and the Engineering Gambler's Fallacy 5 The Automation Paradox: How Boeing's MCAS System Exploited Pilot Trust ← Series Home The Bridge Wobbled. They Saw It. They Fixed It Wrong. On July 1, 1940, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge opened in Washington state. It was an engineering marvel: a suspension bridge spanning 2,800 feet with the longest center span in the world at that time. The design was revolutionary—the deck was thinner and more flexible than previous bridges, giving it a distinctive, almost delicate appearance. Traffic was modest at first but growing. ...

The Architect of Ruin: Decoding Corporate Extinction 1 The Architect of Ruin: Decoding Corporate Extinction - Part 1: The Weight of the Past: How Optimized Machines Grind to a Halt (Organizational Inertia) 2 The Architect of Ruin: Decoding Corporate Extinction - Part 2: Leadership Blindness—The Dangerous Art of Ignoring the Future (Cognitive Rigidity) 3 The Architect of Ruin: Decoding Corporate Extinction - Part 3: The Fatal Embrace: Why Protecting the Cash Cow Kills the Company (Obsolete Model Clinging) 4 The Architect of Ruin: Decoding Corporate Extinction - Part 4: The Illusion of Insight—When Learning from History Leads to the Wrong Lesson (Nokia) 5 The Architect of Ruin: Decoding Corporate Extinction - Part 5: Beyond the Paradox: The Forty Pitfalls That Topple Organizations (A Unified Framework) 6 The Architect of Ruin: Decoding Corporate Extinction - Part 6: Breaking the Mold—A Blueprint for Perpetual Corporate Renewal 7 The Architect of Ruin: Decoding Corporate Extinction - Intro: The Curse of Competence—Why Yesterday's Triumph Guarantees Tomorrow's Failure ← Series Home Groupthink ...