Tiger-Leaping vs Software-Testing [modified]
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In this case it MATTERS Did the-acting-director-at-the-time personally discard Marian's warning ? Did some faceless mail-filtering-staffer discard the warning ? Along the same lines, for a few possibly precious seconds, the zoo staff at the cafe discounted the dude's claim that he had been bitten by a tiger - they did call 911, but the police dispatcher noted "the zoo thinks they are 800 (crazy)" . I won't go into my personal reasons for obsessing on chain-of-command failure, but I do hope that the subject has redeeming value beyond my personal obsession. Today for $0.66 used, Amazon marketplace will sell you a copy of "About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior" by Colonel David Hackworth. I have a tape flag on page 773 "I'd climbed to the highest rung of the ladder only to find the ladder was leaning against the wrong wall." Too lengthy to quote are his more detailed personal observations on chain-of-command failure which fill in such general abstractions. For example having just come back from the front-lines in Vietnam, he was dumbfounded to realize the extent to which golfing-buddyship at the country club was one of the most important things at the "top" levels of "leadership". The common theme between Hackworth and the Zoo is that beyond what Garrett Hardin calls "The Hutterite Limit" of about 150 people, societies do so tend to fall into this trap of an out-of-touch-yet-in-control leadership. NTSB-like, it is worth studying failure-scenarios in such cases.
pg--az
modified on Saturday, December 29, 2007 5:07:07 PM
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pg--az wrote:
I won't go into my personal reasons for obsessing
So you're basically a conspiracy nut. 'Nuf said. :doh:
To introduce faith christianity must destroy reason, to introduce salvation it must destroy happiness.
>> So you're basically a conspiracy nut. 'Nuf said. << No, no, don't label me '800' too ! To browse further along the bookshelf, for example I like Systemantics "A fail safe system fails by failing to fail safe" Systemantics would cost you $1.99 used from Amazon Marketplace, classier, huh ? Also you might enjoy (( dobson kind word )) which summons up mirrors of Terry Dobson's classic "A Kind Word Turneth Away Wrath", about an encounter during his macho white-Aikido-student-in-Tokyo days. Although I have neither bought nor read this one, William Ury has released "The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No and Still Get to Yes". Which brings up the subject of BATNA, which I always associate with the Japanese game of "GO", you signal that you are satisfied with your position by making NO MOVE in response to your adversary's move, although you retain the right to move if after placing enough stones HIS position becomes worth noticing. In this case the word 'nut' phrased dismissively, U got my goat.
pg--az
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>> So you're basically a conspiracy nut. 'Nuf said. << No, no, don't label me '800' too ! To browse further along the bookshelf, for example I like Systemantics "A fail safe system fails by failing to fail safe" Systemantics would cost you $1.99 used from Amazon Marketplace, classier, huh ? Also you might enjoy (( dobson kind word )) which summons up mirrors of Terry Dobson's classic "A Kind Word Turneth Away Wrath", about an encounter during his macho white-Aikido-student-in-Tokyo days. Although I have neither bought nor read this one, William Ury has released "The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No and Still Get to Yes". Which brings up the subject of BATNA, which I always associate with the Japanese game of "GO", you signal that you are satisfied with your position by making NO MOVE in response to your adversary's move, although you retain the right to move if after placing enough stones HIS position becomes worth noticing. In this case the word 'nut' phrased dismissively, U got my goat.
pg--az