TOP 10 MES AXIOMS
For Improving Investigation Performance
© 1979-2003 by Ludwig Benner, Jr. .All rights reserved.
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If you can't flow chart it, you don't understand it.
W Johnson
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| 2 | Everyone and everything always have to be someplace, doing something, during an occurrence L Benner
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| 3 | Always expect everyone to act in what they perceive to be their own best interests, and you'll never be disappointed.
W G Meeker
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| 4 | Change is the Mother of twins:
Progress and Trouble
W Johnson
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| 5 | Things react predictably without thinking during occurrences and tell all ---- but only if you can "read" what they "say"!
L Benner, derived from observations
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| 6 | Observer (witness) has it; you need it; and observer (witness) doesn't have to give it to you.
L Benner, derived from experience
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| 7 | No test plan, no test!
L Benner, derived from experience
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| 8 | Abstractions cover up poor investigations.
derived from S.I Hayakawa
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| 9 | Experienced judgment recycles yesterday's problems.
derived from W. Johnson
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| 10 | Alleged "cause(s)" or cause factors, root causes, proximate causes or other causes of an occurrence mask illusions of knowledge.
derived from D. Boorstein |