Comments on: BP: A reminder of why connection matters

By: Ben Ziegler

Ben Ziegler — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 16:37:21 +0000

Jim… My personal memory of Sewell is limited to his time as Mayor of Toronto. That was many years ago. So, interesting to see your article, which pertains to 20+ years later.

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:33:03 +0000

John Sewell is not the progressive he protrays himself as you just have to look at http://www.ontariotenants.ca/taxes/tax001.phtml

By: Ben Ziegler

Ben Ziegler — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:18:33 +0000

Thanks Pat. Sorry for the delay in responding. I’m glad you’re weighing in on the BP mess-up… Your point about the importance of systems thinking as a risk management strategy is an excellent one. Better to apply systems thinking before vs. after the event! I’ll check out your post too.

By: Pat

Pat — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 20:36:14 +0000

Nice post. I agree with you in your comment about systems thinking that we cannot control it all. What’s really frustrating, though, is when we don’t even come close to managing things as well as we could. In other words, when we have a disaster like the BP oil spill, we’re usually able to see that what went wrong was, in fact, well within the company’s control. Many companies simply do not keep their control processes in proportion to the risks they’re taking. Such was the case with BP, and such was the case with the Wall Street firms that created the financial disaster. I wrote an article on this today, in case you’re interested. Cheers!

http://ragingcapitalist.blogspot.com/2010/06/importance-of-systems-thinking.html

By: Lokesh Datta

Lokesh Datta — Mon, 31 May 2010 18:58:06 +0000

Ben,

I also wrote about the BP spill from a collaboration standpoint in, BP Oil Spill – Unmitigated Disaster in Collaboration, at: http://allcollaboration.com/home/2010/5/27/bp-oil-spill-unmitigated-disaster-in-collaboration.html

Regards,
Lokesh Datta
http://www.allcollaboration.com
Twitter: @LDatta