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# How to Avoid Catastrophe
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- **期号**: SRE Weekly Issue #162（2019-03-03）
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- **作者**: Catherine H. Tinsley, Robin L. Dillon, and Peter M. Madsen — Harvard Business Review
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- **链接**: https://hbr.org/2011/04/how-to-avoid-catastrophe
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## 简介
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How to avoid catastrophe: pay attention to near misses. This article makes an incredibly compelling point that we need to make a conscious effort to pay attention to near misses, and explains how cognitive bias will tend to make us do the exact opposite.
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## 正文
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## Summary.
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Reprint: R1104G Most business failures—such as engineering disasters, product malfunctions, and PR crises—are foreshadowed by near misses, close
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Most people think of “near misses” as harrowing close calls that could have been a lot worse—when a firefighter escapes a burning building moments before it collapses, or when a tornado miraculously veers away from a town in its path. Events like these are rare narrow escapes that leave us shaken and looking for lessons.
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