What can we learn from past disasters in order to prevent future ones?

Book Two in the Stuff Doesn't Just Happen: The Gift of Failure Series by NY Times Bestselling Author, West Point Graduate and former Green Beret, Bob Mayer.

Covering the cascade events leading up to each disaster, why they happened, and how we can prevent similar disasters in the future.

THE CHALLENGER: Organizational failure.

THE SINKING OF THE KURSK: poor training and maintenance.

THE SULTANA EXPLOSION: Greed and speed.

PEARL HARBOR: Mutual misconceptions.

MULHOLLAND AND THE ST. FRANCIS DAM FAILURE: Engineering failure

THE LAST CZAR Leadership failure.

ALIVE! The triumph of the human spirit in the face of overwhelming odds.

We can learn key lessons from all these events. At least six cascade events led up to the seventh, the disaster. And one was always human error. Thus we can prevent future disasters.

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• Publication Date: September 30, 2014
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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• Print Length: 158 Pages
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