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" Holding people accountable and [unfairly] blaming people are two quite different things,” Sidney Dekker, one of the world’s leading thinkers on complex systems, has said. “Blaming people may in fact make them less accountable: They will tell fewer accounts, they may feel less compelled to have their voice heard, to participate in improvement efforts. "

Matthew Syed , Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do


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Matthew Syed quote : Holding people accountable and [unfairly] blaming people are two quite different things,” Sidney Dekker, one of the world’s leading thinkers on complex systems, has said. “Blaming people may in fact make them less accountable: They will tell fewer accounts, they may feel less compelled to have their voice heard, to participate in improvement efforts.