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		<title>Are You Endulled? Is Your Organization?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Endullment is a term coined by Ira Shor to describe what happens to people when they are not allowed to participate in decisions that affect them.  Shor applied the term to educational organizations, but it fits other organizations.  Are you endulled?  In the book Managing in a Team Environment John R. Dew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Perpetual Intermediate&#8221; &#8211; Always Be Learning</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading a book About Face by Allen Cooper.  Mr. Cooper is an expert on user interface design.  He said that people are either beginners, experts, or perpetual intermediates as interface users.  I wondered how that might apply in realms other than usability.
When a new employee goes to work for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Complicated Technology, Human Error, Lax Oversight</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Wall Street Journal (June 16, 2010) an article about past disaster panel members contains something that people in hazardous industries should already know.  But we forget.  The panelists believe the Deepwater Horizon panel will find these causes:&#8220;an over-reliance on complicated technology that fails, human error, and lax oversight by regulators.&#8221; Those are similar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Biggest Cause of Serious Error&#8230;Is A Failure of Communication&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:18:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finn O&#8217;Sullivan is a project executive for a company that builds skyscrapers.  He is quoted in The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, by Atul Gawande. Those who construct skyscrapers rely on one checklist to make sure all the many steps in planning and construction are completed. 
Another checklist is used to ensure that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Call or Not to Call; To Facebook or Not &#8211; Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I teach 11th graders in Sunday School and have been teaching youth for over 30 years.  in the early years of teaching, I contacted the youth by mail or on their home phone or even visited their homes.  Mail still works, even though it is a quaint practice.  When I want to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Off &#8220;Most Wanted&#8221; List: Relief for PHMSA</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) announced that it had removed an item from its &#8220;Most Wanted Transportation Safety Improvements&#8221; list.  For a number of years, &#8220;Reduce Pipeline Accidents Caused by Human Fatigue&#8221; had been on the list.  The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has been working with the pipeline industry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inukshuk: Substitute for a Person</title>
		<link>http://www.charlesalday.com/v1/2010/02/22/inukshuk-substitute-for-a-person/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall St. Journal has an article about the 2010 Olympic symbol and logo, the inukshuk. This stone sculpture(or pile of rocks) and its many derivations are present at all venues and scattered all around the country.
The original purpose of the inukshuk was to mark the location of food caches, the direction of an important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Human Error &#8211; Excuse or Reason?</title>
		<link>http://www.charlesalday.com/v1/2010/02/22/human-error-excuse-or-reason/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Factors]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever used the &#8220;Google Alert&#8221; service to receive an alert about some subject?  Each week, I receive a message that contains links to news when &#8220;human error&#8221; is mentioned.   It is mentioned very often to explain causes of deaths, disasters, accidents, near misses, surprise lottery winners, and other items.  When the luge athlete [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grumpy People, Good Performers?</title>
		<link>http://www.charlesalday.com/v1/2010/02/22/grumpy-people-good-performers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do grumpy people work with you?  Are you grumpy?  Through the years, I have worked with lots of grumpy construction workers, pipeline operators, controllers, technicians, engineers, managers, regulators, IT workers, executives.  Occasionally I have embarked on campaigns to reduce grumpiness at locations where I worked or managed.   I know of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Suffering from Vagueness&#8221; &#8211; A Problem?</title>
		<link>http://www.charlesalday.com/v1/2010/02/17/suffering-from-vagueness-a-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 59-year old woman said she was &#8220;suffering from vagueness&#8221; when it came to controlling her compulsive shopping and spending.  Her statement was in an Atlanta Journal &#8211; Constitution article.  From years of Latin study(really), I know the root word for vagueness is vagus.  The original meaning is &#8220;wander, move around, unsettled.&#8221;   People have a [...]]]></description>
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