Groupthink

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 Data Was in the Room. It Just Didn’t Speak. On the morning of January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off from Kennedy Space Center with 7 crew members aboard. 73 seconds later, the vehicle disintegrated in the sky, killing everyone on board. The technical cause was well understood within minutes: an O-ring seal in the right solid rocket booster had failed in the cold temperatures, allowing hot gases to escape and erode the external tank. ...

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 ...