{"product_id":"forged-by-failure-leadership-for-high-consequence-environments-9798234169853","title":"Forged by Failure: Leadership for High-Consequence Environments","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn March 2002, inspectors at the Davis-Besse nuclear plant found that boric acid had eaten a cavity through six inches of steel in the reactor vessel head. Only a thin stainless liner was holding. The warning signs had been in circulation for years, in reports people had read, signed, and filed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFailure at that scale is almost never a surprise. It is a signal that nobody was structurally able to act on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eForged by Failure\u003c\/em\u003e is about the organizational conditions that let known problems survive. Drawing on documented cases including the Columbia Accident Investigation Board findings, the TWA 514 crash that produced the Aviation Safety Reporting System, Toyota's andon cord, Apollo 13, the Wells Fargo account scandal, and the SUBSAFE program built after the loss of the Thresher, it looks at what separates organizations that surface bad news early from organizations that discover it in an investigation report.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe pattern is consistent. Failure is rarely a competence problem. It is a reporting problem, an incentive problem, and a leadership problem, and each of those is fixable before the accident rather than after it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders will find practical direction on building near miss reporting that people actually use, distinguishing a just culture from a blameless one, reading weak signals before they compound, and holding accountability and psychological safety in the same room without one destroying the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten for operations leaders, safety and quality professionals, compliance officers, engineers, and anyone responsible for work where the cost of being wrong is high.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Trayden Kamprath\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/09\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798234169853\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37d","brand":"Trayden Kamprath","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53514342957237,"sku":"9798234169853","price":12.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9798234169853.jpg?v=1791903712","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/forged-by-failure-leadership-for-high-consequence-environments-9798234169853","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}