Not only is this an insightful story about the Three Mile Island Accident, it is also inspirational and deeper than you might expect.
When something bad happens, it’s easy to just blame someone and move on. Taking the time to find the systemic causes, though, will not only help keep the problem from repeating, it will enable you to build the psychological safety necessary for your team to truly collaborate. Let’s let the story of Three Mile Island teach us how to make our teams stronger through systems thinking and just culture.
All of the controls are dead; flying by controlling thrust - exclusively and the pilot had the wherewithal to use the word we to describe their choices.