THE WEEKLY
REFLEKTION
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The Weekly Reflektion 33/2026
The South African golfer Gary Player was practising bunker shots before a tournament in Texas. He holed one shot and a spectator bet him that he could not do that again. Player took the bet and holed the shot, then another. The spectator exclaimed, ‘I’ve never seen anyone so lucky’. Player replied, ‘Well the harder […]
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The Weekly Reflektion 15/2022
Often the successful outcome of a project or activity has little to do with the care and attention you put into the planning and execution and more to do with luck. Are you lucky, and if so, why are you lucky? A quote that is often attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte is ‘I know he’s a good general […]
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The Weekly Reflektion 19/2021
Sometimes when things fail, we just get lucky. While it is a relief when the situation is saved by lady luck, it’s not something we want to rely on. Do your automatic systems behave as your people expect them to behave? Loganair flight BE-6780, a SAAB 2000 turboprop, was preparing to land at Sumburgh Airport in the […]
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The Weekly Reflektion Week 10/2021
Thank you to everyone that attended the Reflekt Lunch and Learn on Resilience on 18th February.One of the examples we used was the blowout on the Snorre A platform in 2004 where a subsurface hydrocarbon leak from a well compromised the suction anchors for the tension legs and threatened the platform with fire and explosion. […]
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The weekly Reflektion Week 28 / 2019
This week’s Reflektion concerns the incident at Lake Peigneur in Louisiana where communication between a well and a salt mine shaft led to serious consequences.
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