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Black Box Thinking: The Surprising Truth About Success

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Black Box Thinking helps to reframe failure and help to design systems that enable continuous improvement — in that sense, it is aligned to Double Loop Learning as a process of continuous learning and Agile Methodology as an iterative approach of improvement. He illustrates with the example of David Brailsford's marginal gains approach at Sky where performance is broken down into component parts, with measurement and intellectual honesty to see where they where they were going wrong. By applying this method in recent decades, the industry has created an astonishingly good safety record.

Marginal gains occur through bottom-up testing, as opposed to top-down analysis and planning which is what many of us do. And cultures that permit and even encourage such expression of differing viewpoints may stimulate the most innovation. And most of those mistakes are never made public, because of malpractice settlements with nondisclosure clauses. It takes around twelve thousand storyboard drawings to make one ninety-minute feature, and because of the iterative process, story teams often create more than 125,000 storyboards by the time the film is delivered. We simplify and explain our actions and therefore haveno need to test our assumptions or collect evidence.The interested parties are given every reason to cooperate, since the evidence compiled by the accident investigation branch is inadmissible in court proceedings. We are so eager to impose patterns upon what we see, so hardwired to provide explanations, that we are capable of explaining opposite outcomes with the same cause without noticing the inconsistency. The same case studies were used repeatedly and not much extra value was being drawn from them at the end! Matthew Syed Consulting’s cutting-edge thought leadership programme and digital learning tools are becoming a catalyst for real and lasting change within business and the public sector. And as for Black Box Thinking, I highly recommend the book as it will give you powerful tools to deal with mistakes and make you a lot more aware of what's going in your mind and the minds of people around you in high-pressure situations.

These things are important, but they should never overshadow the significance of identifying where one’s strategy is going wrong and evolving. Matthew Syed, who also wrote another bestseller Bounce, which I haven’t yet read, offered us totally different view of failure and success with his work. When we have deep beliefs on a topic, we are more likely to unconsciously reframe evidence than to alter our belief.

Then the facts are published and procedures are changed, so that the same mistakes won’t happen again. Small changes in every area of our life doesn’t make a difference at a time, however, add over the long term. The other type of environment where creative moments often happen, as we have seen, is when we are being sparked by the dissent of others.

This is special important in Systems Engineering, where many components that require a lot of knowledge in an specific field interact together to accomplish a final purpose. Matthew Syed’s Black Box Thinking aims to address our tendency to airbrush over failure by implementing open-loop systems and mindsets to collect, examine and apply learnings from failure. And I’ve added Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed to my collection of Philosopher’s Notes--distilling the Big Ideas into 6-page PDF and 20-minute MP3s on 600+ of the BEST self-development books ever. Redundancy/ margin of safety: in considering how to minimise the impact of failure as well as learning from it. When we are presented with evidence that challenges our deeply held beliefs, we tend to reject the evidence or shoot the messenger rather than amend our beliefs.

We start to reach beyond our usual thought processes (why would you think differently when things are going just as expected? No matter if you are an employee or an entrepreneur, the book also compels you to think about how your company makes its decisions and how things can be improved in your work environment.

But let’s do it as fast as we can so we can get to the answer…I won’t get it right the first time, but I will get it wrong really soon, really quickly. It undoubtedly gives me a moment to reflect my own belief having to do with mistake as well as related to my profession. In all, it took an astonishing 5,127 prototypes before Dyson believed the technology was ready to go in the vacuum cleaner.This blind spot is not limited to science; it is a basic property of our world and it accounts, to a large extent, for our skewed attitude to failure. The most important quality I look for in people coming to Dyson is the willingness to try, fail and learn. We all know that we should be learning from our failures but hardly it happens that we apply the learning. The author explores failures in medicine which could have lead to constructive changes and opportunities for people to examine their behaviour .

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