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Managing the Unexpected
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Preface vii Acknowledgments xi Chapter 1 Mismanaging the Unexpected 1 Chapter 2 The Infrastructure of Mindful Organizing 21 Chapter 3 Principle 1: Preoccupation with Failure 45 Chapter 4 Principle 2: Reluctance to Simplify 62 Chapter 5 Principle 3: Sensitivity to Operations 77 Chapter 6 Principle 4: Commitment to Resilience 94 Chapter 7 Principle 5: Deference to Expertise 112 Chapter 8 Organizational Culture and Reliability 129 Chapter 9 Sustaining Sustained Performance 148 Notes 163 About the Authors 195 Index 197
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“A robust system of identification, classification, management, analysis, and correction of quality issues within an organization is key to organizational success, as demonstrated in examples from other high‐reliability fields where a culture of low tolerance for error and a reluctance to simplify cause analysis is essential to mitigating risks associated with increasing system complexity [10, 11].”
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“Trend analysis of quality issues is a critical tool in both the management of corrective actions and in the management review process, and effective trend analysis of issues detected and root causes is a prominent feature of high‐reliability fields such as aviation and medicine [10].”
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