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Fire Suppression System

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A dilemma to consider.

Should we… Let the fires rage while we build a fire suppression system.

Or… Continue to fight the fires while dreaming about a fire suppression system that we’ll build someday.

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Lance Willett
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  1. Resilience Engineering and Strange Loops – The Sensible Leader Avatar
    Resilience Engineering and Strange Loops – The Sensible Leader

    […] A key insight: adding new people to the team or bringing in experts for analysis can help answer the question, “Why are things done the way they are?” Often lacking during internal discussions. We fix the point problem and move on; fighting fires instead of making a fire suppression system. […]

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  2. Alister Scott Avatar
    Alister Scott

    What about each time you put out a fire you put something small in place to stop that type of fire (hopefully) happening again?

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    1. Lance Willett Avatar
      Lance Willett

      That’s a good balance, Alister. The thing about the raging fires is they take more than one bucket of water to extinguish.

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