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.
"It looks like a demonstration ship – one designed to satisfy an ego rather than to perform"
... in other words, a 17th-century Cybertruck?
I mainly know about the Vasa because the Swedish post office released a set of stamps in 1969 featuring engravings on the ship and various of its carvings (the stamps themselves were designed by a very famous stamp engraver).
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