Emergent Organizational Failure: Five Disconnections

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Lists five disconnections that derail reliability: assuming a single “production” boundary (example: a deployment workstation reboot causing a 20‑minute outage), underestimating how hard prioritization is, setting unrealistic goals like “no more global rollouts,” treating organizations as simple command‑and‑control systems instead of complex cultures, and replacing dedication with incentives. Recommends blameless prioritization, shifting goals to measurable progress, and charging a trust battery through listening and actions to enable sustained reliability improvements.

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1. 0:00THE ADVANCED COMPUTING SYSTEMS ASSOCIATION
2. 0:15Emergent Organizational Failure: Five Disconnections
3. 0:47Reliability Leadership
4. 1:52Emergence
5. 4:13Is a deployment tool part of production? Is source control?
6. 6:18Everything contributes to emergent behavior.
7. 7:09Reliability requires extra consideration
8. 8:32Reality Check: Each of our mental models is incomplete
9. 9:39Spend time understanding & Plan to change priorities
10. 12:44The realism of a goal is not related to the need!
11. 14:30Picking realistic goals is hard when we cannot calibrate from experience
12. 16:06Sustainable goals are about progress instead
13. 19:12Create the right environment for your team's best work to emerge
14. 20:08Moving the Needle Means Moving the Culture
15. 20:42Rules and Lessons
16. 22:35Incentives are transactional
17. 24:44Actions are imperative to building trust
18. 26:13Does the team believe their services bring harm or good into the world?
19. 27:20Do people trust that doing the right thing will be recognized?

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