2013 paper from Dekker discussing drift into failure. Nothing new if you’ve read his 2011 book. Extracts: ·    “organizations do not just fail because of component breakage or linear propagations of breakdowns. Instead, failure breeds opportunistically, non-randomly, among the very structures designed to protect an organization from disaster” ·    “A common pattern seems to be a drift… Continue reading Drifting into failure: Complexity theory and the management of risk