The Art of Manliness

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#517: What Big-Time Catastrophes Can Teach Us About How to Improve the Systems of Our Lives

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Published June 17, 2019 12:15pm

Whenever a financial or technological disaster takes place, people wonder if it could have possibly been averted.

My guests today say that the answer is often yes, and that the lessons around why big disasters happen can teach us something about preventing catastrophes in our businesses and personal lives. Their names are Chris Clearfield and Andras Tilcsik, and they're the authors of Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It.

We begin our discussion getting into how they got interested in exploring how everything from plane crashes to nuclear meltdowns to...

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