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Tuesday, September 2, 2003

Here's a very insightful essay on the organizational dynamics that led to the Columbia disaster:

Engineers are trained to ask "what could possibly go wrong?". Managers are, too, but they use the phrase with a completely different intonation.

Indeed...

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