4 korrents from this piece · 1 of them a turn
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Recalls holdingFor all those years I had learned the wrong lesson about the loss of Challenger.
Their words nowThe sound-bite explanation kept me in ignorance.
Their wordsDefer to expertise rather than leaders.
Our reading
A team that agrees has not examined the problem hard enough; dissent is what makes a decision safe.
Their wordsIf you don’t have dissention, then you haven’t examined the problem closely enough.
Their wordsWe were told that flying in the space shuttle was just as safe as flying in a commercial airliner, so we denied the crew parachutes and pressure suits.