Wilful Blindness
Book by Margaret HeffernanWikipedia
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Oct 5, 2026
Simon GatesHOST
100% recommend it.
Simon GatesHOST
Someone else in the room recommended a book called Willful Blindness by Margaret Heffernan.
Simon GatesHOST
about how organizations and people look away from small problems until they become catastrophic.
Simon GatesHOST
That links to something Damien said, be really careful of small incremental errors.
Margaret HeffernanGUEST
You need a culture of generosity and tolerance with each other and a great capacity to be able to challenge each other on the ideas as opposed to on the people.
Margaret HeffernanGUEST
My book, Willful Blindness, is about the failure to do that.
Margaret HeffernanGUEST
The failure to say, yeah, but I think this is dangerous, or I think this is risky, or have we considered this, or have we considered that? I think inspiration is great in terms of triggering new ways of thinking, but an inspiration is rarely an answer.
Margaret HeffernanGUEST
It may just point the direction in which the answer might be found.