Monthly Archives: July 2010

Failure Is Not A Dirty Word

Posted on July 13, 2010 by

The last large company I was engineering manager at had a corporate culture of avoiding the word “failure”.  Unfortunately, this came from the ownership level and therefore complacency and incompetence ran amuck. After a couple of months of being there, … Continue reading →

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How To See Failure

Posted on July 12, 2010 by

Anything which occurs that did not turn out as planned (or desired) is a failure.  This implies that a description of success is necessary in order to recognize failure.  The implications of these 2 statements are: 1)  Failure is everywhere. … Continue reading →

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BP Failure

Posted on July 8, 2010 by

The massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico is a good way to start talking about Telos.  The leak and resultant environmental damage is the effect of a failure. This effect due to a rupture in the pipe leading … Continue reading →

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Welcome

Posted on July 8, 2010 by

This Blog is an open discussion of failures and how to control them.  Telos is a Failure Based Management methodology which I developed.  It is based on the premise that Success is the absence of Failure, and the Failures that … Continue reading →

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