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Re:Alert About Missile Bound for Hawaii Was Sent in Error, O... by smacktoward on Saturday January 13, 2018 @04:44PM (#16141592)
Which is ironic, since pour encourager les autres in this context comes straight from the pen of a great satirist making fun of a dumb, blunt, broken institutional culture -- specifically Voltaire, mocking the British in Candide for responding to the loss of a naval battle not by training their admirals better but by executing one of them "to encourage the others."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candide#Satire

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Re:Alert About Missile Bound for Hawaii Was Sent in Error, O... by HarryHirsch on Saturday January 13, 2018 @06:19PM (#16141927)
That was Admiral Byng, and the move worked, it made two generations of navy leadership reckless in the face of danger.
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Re:Alert About Missile Bound for Hawaii Was Sent in Error, O... by nradov on Saturday January 13, 2018 @04:59PM (#16141658)
Yes I'm well aware of the irony and not advocating this as a general management practice. Just pointing out that it's a complicated decision and there are rare cases where firing is the least bad decision for the organization as a whole.
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