This is a keynote address from Velocity Europe 2014 in Barcelona on 17 November. I…
Category: systems thinking
Occupational Overuse Syndrome – Human Error Variant (OOS-HEV) is a condition involving the overuse of the…
“If only it weren’t for the managers, the goddamned managers, always getting tangled up in the…
The comedian Bill Hicks died just over 20 years ago. He was not ‘just a comedian’.…
In Kurt Vonnegut’s dystopian novel ‘Player Piano’, automation has replaced most human labour. Anything that…
OVER BLACK WE HEAR THE DULL SOUNDS OF INDUSTRY; A MUFFLED MASS OF MACHINES, GEARS, STEAM.…
This week, a EUROCONTROL Network Manager White Paper was released, entitled Systems Thinking for Safety: Ten…
On 24-26 September, EUROCONTROL/NAV-Portugal hosted a conference in Lisbon entitled Safety, Human Performance, System: From…
In my last post, I offered a reworked version of the 12-steps of Alcoholics Anonymous…
Most of us in democratic countries would hate to see the rise authoritarianism. When we…
Humanistic Systems 