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When Great Cultures Make Dangerous Decisions
NASA is packed with brilliant people, high standards, and deep purpose and yet the Columbia disaster revealed something every leader needs to face: a culture can feel positive and still produce dangerous decisions. We sit down with Philip Mead, a 31-year NASA veteran who led cultural transformation work after Columbia, to unpack how high employee engagement can coexist with normalized risk, missed signals, and the quiet pressure to stay silent when you cannot “prove it with data.”We get practical about what’s happening under the surface: cognitive biases triggered by identity threats…
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