Abstract :
We read the daily papers mostly to find out what has gone wrong, and presumably to learn from the mistakes, faults, and problems or others ¿ or, at the very least, to feel good about not being personally involved. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in a seminar labeled ¿Failure of Human Systems,¿ the not very surprising conclusion was drawn (among others) that a failure is often considered as shameful, as something to be suppressed, particularly if the failure is construed by the participants as a personal rather than as a project failure. Thus, it is understandable that many individuals who do ¿make the papers¿ are not happy about it.
