In my auditor’s peregrinations (I borrow the term from a recent Mr. Greg Hutchins’s e-mail message) I often met with organizational structures represented – more or less graphically – as pyramids or triangular shapes: the organization’s top management down to the work-force level. Continue reading
Over the past years, the NTSB and its sister organizations were very concerned about how flight check-lists were used, or not used in order to prevent their misuse and therefore prevent airplane crashes. Continue reading
Let’s face it: cobwebs are not nice to see; in the worst case they remind us horror films, vampires’ habitat.
They kind of inspire a dirty feeling.
But … Continue reading
Or, why we are not listened to?
Why don’t we listen to those who – justifiably – cry wolf?
Be others or ourselves, it does not matter.
The output of this regrettable way of thinking often results in a “chronicle of a death foretold”. What do I mean? Continue reading
It all began with laser’s consistent light. In 1969, my last school year, we were all fascinated by laser technology, to the point that we took extra school time to experiment with laser equipment.
This was the very first occasion I came across the term “consistent light” and its underlying meaning of “consistency”. Continue reading