No Single Points of Failure applies also to organizations.
Boeing's corporate governance failures became life threatening only because FAA certification process failed. Regulatory capture of FAA was the second failure.
> What happens to federal employees who ignore safety warnings, cover up incompetent or even criminal behavior, destroy official documents and mislead members of Congress? At the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), they get promoted.
> That's the take-away from last week's National Whistleblowers Assembly on Capitol Hill, sponsored by the Government Accountability Project (GAP) and featuring famous NYPD whistleblower Frank Serpico and former FBI agent Coleen Rowley.
Boeing's corporate governance failures became life threatening only because FAA certification process failed. Regulatory capture of FAA was the second failure.
Regulatory capture may be responsible for Boeing's recent problems https://www.economist.com/business/2019/03/23/regulatory-cap...
Barbara Hollingsworth: 'Regulatory capture' explains a lot about FAA's failures https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/barbara-hollingsworth-reg...
> What happens to federal employees who ignore safety warnings, cover up incompetent or even criminal behavior, destroy official documents and mislead members of Congress? At the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), they get promoted.
> That's the take-away from last week's National Whistleblowers Assembly on Capitol Hill, sponsored by the Government Accountability Project (GAP) and featuring famous NYPD whistleblower Frank Serpico and former FBI agent Coleen Rowley.