Crisis Engineering Reading List
Our Top 3:
- Young Men and Fire - Norman Maclean
- Inside Bureaucracy - Anthony Downs
- Thinking In Systems - Donella Meadows
On Organizations:
- Inside Bureaucracy - Anthony Downs
- Tyranny of Structurelessness - Jo Freeman
- Simple Sabotage Field Manual - US Office of Strategic Services
- Bureaucracy - James Q Wilson
On Complex Systems:
- How Complex Systems Fail - Richard Cook
- Make Boring Plans - Camille Fournier
- History of Fire Escapes - Tanya Reilly
- Everything written by Patrick McKenzie
- How Infrastructure Works - Deb Chachra
- Thinking In Systems - Donella Meadows
On Cybernetics:
- The Unaccountability Machine - Dan Davies (and his Back of Mind Substack)
- The Heart of Enterprise - Stafford Beer
On Sensemaking:
- Sensemaking in Organizations - Karl Weick
- The Collapse of Sensemaking in Organizations: The Mann Gulch Disaster - Karl Weick
On Crisis Communications:
On Computers:
On Accidents:
- There Are No Accidents - Jessie Singer
- The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error' - Sidney Dekker
On Making Change Outside of Crises:
On Finance:
Our Own Writing: