This article is a reproduction of the Editorial published in HindSight magazine issue 34 in…
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HindSight is a magazine on human and organisational factors in operations. HindSight magazine is free…
In this post, I describe four roles for the spread of new ideas, and reflect on corresponding ego traps or shadow roles.
This article is a reproduction of the Editorial published in HindSight magazine issue 33 in…
HindSight Issue 30 on Wellbeing is now online at SKYbrary. You can download the full issue, and individual articles. HindSight magazine is free and published twice a year, reaching tens of thousands of readers in aviation and other sectors worldwide. You will find an introduction to this Issue in this post, along with links to the magazine and the individual articles.
In this post, I outline four common homes for HF/E within organisations, drawing on personal experience in each of the four organisational divisions in different organisations. I conclude with some of the implications of organisational homelessness.
In many professions, specific terms – both old and new – are often established and accepted unquestioningly, from the inside. In some cases, such terms may create and perpetuate inequity and injustice, even when introduced with good intentions. One example that has played on my mind over recent years is the term ‘second victim’.
“If only it weren’t for the managers, the goddamned managers, always getting tangled up in the…
In my last post, I offered a reworked version of the 12-steps of Alcoholics Anonymous…
How do organisations learn? It is fairly uncontroversial to say that we, as individuals and…
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