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That depends on “worth”. Financially, maybe not … yet. (Of course, all new technologies are expensive. But until many people buy into them, they won’t be produced for the mass market and become cheaper). More important, however, are natural resources. How can we survive without clean air and water?
So, instead of “percentage depreciation”, shouldn’t we shift our focus to “minimising degradation” of our collective world? Although this 3-page article comes from the world of medecine, its author is a professor of psychology. Its material is hence very relevant to the business of driving and teaching it. It concludes:
"High reliability organisations are the prime examples of the system [not the person] approach [to managing errors]. They anticipate the worst and equip themselves to deal with it at all levels of the organisation. It is hard, even unnatural, for individuals to remain chronically uneasy, so their organisational culture takes on a profound significance. Individuals may forget to be afraid, but the culture of a high reliability organisation provides them with both the reminders and the tools to help them remember. For these organisations, the pursuit of safety is not so much about preventing isolated failures, either human or technical, as about making the system as robust as is practicable in the face of its human and operational hazards. High reliability organisations are not immune to adverse events, but they have learnt the knack of converting these occasional setbacks into enhanced resilience of the system."  Click the image to see more |
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