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Spotting big, painful, expensive failures are easy. But failure that are hidden are hidden as long as it’s unlikely to cause immediate or obvious harm. The goal should be to surface it early, before it can create disaster when accompanied by other lapses in the system. High‐reliability‐organization (HRO) helps prevent catastrophic failures in complex systems like nuclear power plants, aircraft through early detection.

In a big petrochemical plant, the top management is religiously interested to tracks each plant for anything even slightly out of the ordinary, immediately investigates whatever turns up, and informs all its other plants of any anomalies. But many a time, these methods are not widely employed because senior executives – remain reluctant to convey bad news to bosses and colleagues.