The Tyranny of Metrics This is the title of a very easy to read book on the obsession of metrics by Jerry Z. Muller. It should be mandatory reading for anyone in the safety industry. ‘The challenges of ‘tick and flick’ in the culture of safety is endemic. We know from the research by Herbert […]
Goals
DUMB Goals for Fallible People
DUMB Goals for Fallible People The language of perfection is non-sense for fallible people. Speaking infallibility to the fallible is a sure recipe for alienation and delusion. As language forms the bedrock of culture, language of infallibility sets up those speaking it for hypocrisy and those listening for scepticism and cynicism. One thing is […]
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Nonsense Goals and Language on Display
Nonsense Goals and Language on Display One of the things that Safety does best is speak meaningless language and create reverse goals. When one defines safety numerically and then makes up binary nonsense language to match, it makes for pretty stupid rhetoric. There is nothing more absurd than setting a goal and then counting the […]
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It’s a Great Goal, it Just Doesn’t Work
It’s a Great Goal, it Just Doesn’t Work Everyday a man walks down the street of a small country town in South Australia and waves his arms about squawking like a parrot, he has been doing this for several years. One day a visiting policeman sees him and asks him what he is doing. ‘It’s […]
