How Complex Systems Fail

Being a Short Treatise on the Nature of Failure; How Failure is\nEvaluated; How Failure is Attributed to Proximate Cause; and the\nResulting New Understanding of Patient Safety

Book • 1998

Author

Richard I. Cook

Mentioned by

Alex Danco

Randy Shoup

Mentioned in 3 episodes

Mentioned by

Alex Danco

as an essay explaining how complex systems fail and the role of human intervention in preventing catastrophic failures.

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17: Alex Danco - Innovation Begins with Gifts

Mentioned by Colette as a book that helped her understand complex systems.

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episode 5 - curating your resilience engineering 101

Mentioned by

Randy Shoup

as part of the resilience engineering community's research on system failures.

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Architecture Should Model the World as It Really Is: A Conversation with Randy Shoup

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