tom_geraghty1d ago

The Vasa sank in 1628 because the people who knew it would sink didn't feel able to say so to the people who could have done something about it.

We wrote up the full case study — Vasa Syndrome, authority gradients, and what the sister ship tells us about organisational learning.

https://psychsafety.com/the-vasa-disaster/

The Vasa

The Vasa Disaster A few years ago, I was working for a client in Stockholm and in some free time, I visited the wreck of the Vasa, the world’s best-preserved 17th-century ship. She’s housed in a museum built specifically around […]

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@tom_geraghty and with the wonderful progress of time we have come so far that those who know now finally feel safe to speak up while the people who can do something are still not listening. Oh, well… too bad we don’t have 400 more years.
Apr 10 at 4:31pmWeb