Bill's Notebook » organizational failure http://blog.billbrantley.com Random notes on politics, government, science, and technology. Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:38:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Why Government Agencies Need to Listen to Their Own Experts Over Industry Experts http://blog.billbrantley.com/2010/06/22/why-government-agencies-need-to-listen-to-their-own-experts-over-industry-experts/ http://blog.billbrantley.com/2010/06/22/why-government-agencies-need-to-listen-to-their-own-experts-over-industry-experts/#comments Tue, 22 Jun 2010 23:52:29 +0000 bill http://blog.billbrantley.com/?p=307 “An examination by The New York Times highlights the chasm between the oil industry’s assertions about the reliability of its blowout preventers and a more complex reality. It reveals that the federal agency charged with regulating offshore drilling, the Minerals Management Service, repeatedly declined to act on advice from its own experts on how it could minimize the risk of a blind shear ram failure.”

This is going in my book on organizational failure.

]]> http://blog.billbrantley.com/2010/06/22/why-government-agencies-need-to-listen-to-their-own-experts-over-industry-experts/feed/ 0 General Theory of Organizational Failure: Starting the Book http://blog.billbrantley.com/2010/04/13/general-theory-of-organizational-failure-starting-the-book/ http://blog.billbrantley.com/2010/04/13/general-theory-of-organizational-failure-starting-the-book/#comments Tue, 13 Apr 2010 23:45:38 +0000 bill http://blog.billbrantley.com/?p=243 Back in 2005 I presented a conference paper on a framework for general organization failure.  Five years later and I find that the framework is still valid with parts of the framework being confirmed by neuroscience experiments.  I compiled a list of books and articles to update the research and will expand the paper into a book.  I hope to have it finished by the fall.  Stay tuned for updates.

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