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January 2, 2008
Charles Perrow on the Next Disaster
I've recommended here before that entrepreneurs and investors read Charles Perrow's excellent book Normal Accidents, so it will come as no surprise that I was fascinated by his recent MIT talk on disasters, normal and not-so-normal.
Watch it here, but be sure to skip the endless, academic-y intro.
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Great minds think alike... I wrote a post about applying Perrow's "Catastrophic Potential" to markets after your session with Tim O'Reilly at the Web2.0 Summit.
Charles Perrow new book is "The Next Disaster"
Working MIT video link:
http://mitworld.mit.edu/play/508/