When bad things happen to good trees

Why good people do bad things.

The very context of organizational decision making tests autonomous moral agency for managers, and the moral price they pay may be great. Misunderstandings, miscommunication, fear and isolation all play a role in why good people do bad things. Self-knowledge, good communication, alternative support systems and management by walking around (MBWA) all help good people (who happen to be managers) ...

When Bad Things Happen to Good Intentions: The Development and Demise of a Task Force Examining the Drugs-Violence Interrelationship Symposium on Drug Crimes

‘Recognizing Safety and Liveness’ by Alpern and Schneider

What is liveness? “Good things do happen” Or at least will happen eventually. There is not a timing constraint in this model. For example, consider the following “live event”: Nuclear Winter. Sure bad things happen, but it has been an inspiration for much art so something good about it has happened. Liveness is usually related to well-foundedness. In logic, well-foundedness means that for a bin...

Panel: When Bad Things Happen To Good Chips

Design of reliable chips with high yield is an extremely challenging task in UDSM technologies. Time to market pressures, which often limit the necessary verification before tapeout, typically are manifested as ramp-to-production problems on "good" designs either in the manufacturing process or in the field. Burn-in process, a reactive measure to ship reliable chips, is not effective for high v...

Why Bad Things Happen to Good Projects

Christina Hanger had little reason to be pessimistic in May 2004, when she was moving one of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s biggest North American divisions onto a centralized ERP system from SAP AG. As the leader of an IT consolidation project rooted in HP's acquisition of Compaq Computer Corp. two years earlier, Hanger, HP's senior vice president of Americas operations and IT, had an unbroken record o...