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Tag: Systems Thinking

  • Systems Thinking

Facing up to Command-and-Controlism: Twenty Warning Signs

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 17/07/201417/07/2014

In my last post, I offered a reworked version of the 12-steps of Alcoholics Anonymous…

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  • Systems Thinking

Recovery from Command-and-Control: A Twelve-Step Program

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 12/07/201418/11/2014

Most of us in democratic countries would hate to see the rise authoritarianism. When we…

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  • Safety

Organisations and the ghosts of failures past, present and yet to come

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 02/04/201405/06/2014

How do organisations learn? It is fairly uncontroversial to say that we, as individuals and…

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  • Safety

Safety-II as disruptive innovation

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 08/03/201421/01/2016

The field of safety management has operated within the same paradigm for decades: finding and…

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  • Safety

Seven questions on Safety-II: Ensuring things go right

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 04/03/201416/03/2014

This post is an article that was published in The Ergonomist: Newsletter of the Institute…

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  • Culture

The Principles of Punk Rock at Work

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 05/10/201322/04/2016

About the time I was born, a new musical genre emerged. Disillusioned with the rock…

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  • Systems Thinking

Target Culture: Lessons in Unintended Consequences

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 02/07/201328/01/2019

By Steven Shorrock & Tony Licu The text in this article first appeared in HindSight…

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  • Humanistic Psychology

Why do we resist new thinking about safety and systems?

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 12/04/201329/11/2014

Something I have been thinking about for a while is the way that we look…

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Steven Shorrock is an interdisciplinary humanistic, systems and design practitioner interested in human work from multiple perspectives.

Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol) & Chartered Ergonomist and Human Factors Specialist (CErgHF)

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'Human Factors & Ergonomics in Practice' concerns the real practice of human factors and ergonomics (HF/E), conveying the perspectives and experiences of practitioners and other stakeholders in a variety of industrial sectors, organisational settings and working contexts. Buy direct from Routledge.

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