Beyond Airline Disruptions: Denial Of the Understanding As a Cause Of System Disruptions

Wednesday 31 October 2018

Denial Of the Understanding As a Cause Of System Disruptions

'Just because you don’t understand it
…doesn’t mean it isn’t true.

…doesn’t mean it isn’t important.

If we spend our days ignoring the things we don’t understand (because they must not be true and they must not be important) all we’re left with is explored territory with little chance of improvement', says Seth Godin

This is why an unexplored territory of system disruptions in aviation keeps growing unattended. If you are keen to make real improvement you need to understand disruptions. I have written 'Beyond Airline Disruptions: Thinking and Managing Anew' to offer you some guidance.

My Favourite Quotes:

'The order is established not according to a pattern, but when there is complete understanding of what disorder is.' Krishnamurti

'Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.' Albert Einstein

‘In flying I have learned that carelessness and overconfidence are usually far more dangerous than deliberately accepted risks ’Wilbur Wright

‘If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don’t embrace trouble; that’s as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you’ll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.’ Oliver Wendell Holmes

'Anyone who is not given information cannot assume responsibility. But anyone who is given information cannot avoid assuming it.' Jan Carlzon

'Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.' Goethe

'Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.' Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Disruptions are like music out of tune. People can listen to it, but not for long.