Most people in the safety and risk game should know the name of Nassim Taleb, author and maverick mathematician of Black Swan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Swan:_The_Impact_of_the_Highly_Improbable). Unfortunately, the moment he writes in Maths I need a translator, similarly any language like Finnish. If you haven’t read Antifragile then do so (… Learn more >>>>>
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Talking Risk Video–Anti-Fragility
Talking Risk Video–Anti-Fragility
Dave Whitefield and James Ellis have a conversation on the couch around the concept of anti-fragility.
They pose the question: “What is the opposite of fragile?”
The answer is not what we would normally assume. The guys discuss the concept of exposure to stress and risk actually … Learn more >>>>>
Military Metaphors in Safety
Military Metaphors in Safety
Check out Rob’s new book: Following-Leading in Risk
Weick (1979) tells us that organizing is ‘a consensually validated grammar for reducing equivocality by means of sensible interlocking behaviours’. Wow, what a definition and so much jammed into that definition. What it means is that humans ‘organize’ … Learn more >>>>>
Nonsense Curves and Pyramids
Nonsense Curves and Pyramids
Safety likes nothing more than curves and pyramids, nothing so exciting as parading out the Bradley Curve or Heinrich’s Pyramid to get the troops excited about failure and loss.
The Bradley Curve was created by DuPont in 1995 to try and benchmark notions of culture and … Learn more >>>>>
