Mike Lauder: 2 books
It Should Never Happen Again
The Failure of Inquiries and Commissions to Enhance Risk Governance
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
In It Should Never Happen Again, Dr Mike Lauder questions the value of public inquiries. Every day, we hear about another inquiry being set up, or why the last one failed to deliver the hoped for outcomes. A great deal of time and taxpayers’ money is spent on inquiries and even more on implementing...
In Pursuit of Foresight
Disaster Incubation Theory Re-imagined
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Many inquiry reports blame management for their failures of foresight. These reports are based on the premise that, with a little more thought, these oversights, and so the crisis, would have been avoided. Is it really that simple? The important question is whether, without hindsight, it would have...