THE WEEKLY
REFLEKTION
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The Weekly Reflektion 48/2025
At our breakfast seminar in March 2019 we talked about the project cost of the Scottish Parliament from GBP 40 million to over GBP 400 million. For anyone following the Forrnebubanen project cost there will likely be a similar escalation. Ambition is laudable, but disciplined realism will help ensure success.. How do you encourage your teams to be cautiously ambitious? The […]
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The Weekly Reflektion 47/2025
We have earlier published several Reflektions on the Helge Ingstad collision where a mental picture of the situation was agreed between the Officer of the Watch and his relief which turned out to be in error. The collision between USS Fitzgerald and the container ship MV ACX Crystal also highlights how anchoring, confirmation bias and […]
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The Weekly Reflektion Week 02 / 2020
In last week’s Reflektion we talked about the criticism Florence Nightingale received from Dr. James Barry and how this criticism led to hygiene changes in the military hospital at Scutari in Istanbul and the many lives this saved. This week will use an example where the criticism was warranted but the way it was communicated […]
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The Weekly Reflektion Week 01 / 2020
Happy New Year to all our readers. We hope that a quiet reflection over all you have done in 2019 will give an inspiration to how you can be better in 2020. We are sure that most of you have not experienced a Major Accident in 2019. We also hope that you will not assume […]
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The Weekly Reflektion Week 51 / 2019
This week’s Reflektion is a follow up on the Reflektions in week 49 and week 50 and concerns the process of changing of our mental models. Learning is not the just the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is the application of new knowledge and new experience to a desired end. Learning requires a change in the […]
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The Weekly Reflektion Week 50 / 2019
This week’s Reflektion is a follow up on week 49 Reflektion on human error and considers the concept of mental models. Do you have ‘human error’ down as one of the main causes for accidents and incidents? What mental model did the person(s) involved in the accident or incident have and how did this influence […]
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