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Challenges – what to do when good systems go bad

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A gripping account of the Challenger Shuttle disaster got Carroll Barry-Walsh thinking about how we manage risk and justify mistakes.

They slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God.

Those words from the poem, High Flight by John Magee, were spoken by President Ronald Reagan on the afternoon of Tuesday January 28, 1986. They ended his address to the nation after the Challenger Shuttle exploded

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