In response to this debacle, GE has repudiated its previous leadership with a zeal unprecedented in a company of its size and stature. Gone in the past 10 months are the CEO, the CFO (who was also a vice chair), two of the three other vice chairs, the head of the largest business, ...
If there is a signal that something that shouldn’t have happened has happened, then a full learning process has to be in place to identify the operational cause, and from that identify the flawed paradigm that let the operational cause happen. This is just the first part of the learning. ...
2) In every other situation, it's "Oh God, what happened?" But rarely do you see a flashing blue light in a parking lot, right? (Unless it's attached to a police cruiser because someone got caught stealing at a store or something bad happened, and hopefully both are a rarity.) ...
That said, the five engineers were totally blindsided by the sudden irrationality they were facing not just from the NASA guy but from their own colleagues, people who happened to be managers but who were just as intelligent, experienced, and caring as the engineers. Somehow, the engineers were...
Assuming the software has proper coding and no bad lines of code (the big “if”) maybe the “error” can be offset. IMO, Boeing designed and built this plane (the MD way on the cheap) by doing a flawed extension of an existing platform which has proved to be a big engineering “...
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My original paid seat was no longer available and I had no choice but change my seat to a middle seat at the forward zone. I called Singapore Airlines how this could happened however they insisted that the changes must have been made by me or someone as the changes were made on the ...
Pan Am didn’t step back and objectively look at how little feed National could provide Pan Am; nor did Pan Am consider the costs of merging the two airlines’ work forces. What would have happened if Pan Am had considered these risks, and chosen to step back and let Texas International...
Capitalist economies, like those of the United States and United Kingdom, supported complete private ownership of production, with price and product need being determined by the customer, which in the case of wartime happened to be the government. ...
E.g., when I became a glider pilot some 35 years ago, my instructors used to proclaim that “the most dangerous aspect of the sport is the drive to the airport”. This was a widely held belief at the time even though it could not have been further from the truth. And while the sl...