definitions: sh!t doesn't just happen: the gift of failure
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Some of the terms used in this bestselling series on how to avoid catastrophe and disaster by learning from classic disasters.TRANSCRIPT
“DEFINITION: Shit Happens: life is full of unpredictable events and
there’s nothing we can do about it. Bad things happen to people for no
particular reason.”
BULL
The Donner Party: Social Disintegration
DEFINITION: Catastrophe:The final event of the dramatic action, especially of a tragedy.
An event causing great and often sudden damage or suffering; a
disaster.Utter failure.
The Challenger: Organizational Failure
DEFINITION: The Rule of 7: rarely does a disaster happens in
isolation or as the result of a single event. It usually requires a
minimum of 7 things to go wrong in order for a catastrophe. And one of those 7 is always human error.
The St. Francis Dam: Engineering Failure
DEFINITION: Cascade Event: An event prior to a catastrophe that
contributes to the actual catastrophe, but by itself, is not catastrophic.
DEFINITION: Final Event: A
catastrophic event. The culmination of at least six cascade events.
DEFINITION: Delusion Event: A cascade event that doesn’t lead to
a final event.
Custer: Leadership Failure
DEFINITION: Lose-lose scenarios: This is a training scenario where
there is no ‘right’ solution.
DEFINITION: Catastrophe mindset: Expecting that what can go wrong;
will.
Pearl Harbor
DEFINITION: Delusional mindset. Someone who has had success far beyond that which should be the norm, helped with an abnormal
amount of luck, believe the abnormal is normal and that their streak will continue indefinitely.
The Last Czar: Leadership Failure
DEFINITION: Cascade Stopper: A person designated as the check
and balance on a leader, especially under stressful situations.
Shit Doesn’t Just Happen: The Gift of Failure, Book I:
TitanicKegworth Plane Crash
Custer & Little Big HornThe Donner Party
New London Schoolhouse ExplosionTulips to the Housing Bubble
Apollo 13
Shit Doesn’t Just Happen: The Gift of Failure, Book II:
The Challenger ExplosionThe Last Czar
The Sultana ExplosionThe St. Francis Dam Failure
The Kursk SinkingPearl Harbor
Flight 871: ALIVE!
Meet Bob Mayer
Bob Mayer is a West Point Graduate,
former Green Beret and NY Times
Bestselling author of Factual Fiction.
www.bobmayer.orgwww.coolgus.com
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