SAWB - Great Idiots of History
This episode explores how historian Mike Duncan’s “Great Idiot Theory of History” can offer a different way of thinking about workplace health and safety failures, arguing that serious incidents are rarely inevitable and more often the result of avoidable leadership decisions protected by elite consensus. Drawing connections among history, corporate power, and psychological harm at work, this episode challenges the idea that tragedies are accidents and instead makes the case for stronger accountability, earlier intervention, and readiness to act when flawed leadership finally loses its…
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