It’s Not the People, It’s the System: Lessons from the Boeing Door Failure
This 6‑minute segment breaks down the Boeing door failure as a system problem, not a people problem. Tate shows how incentives, production targets, and weak escalation channels trained the organization to trade safety for speed, long before the incident hit the headlines.
Watch this if you’re a leader who keeps seeing the same issues repeat, despite more training, more process, and more pressure on your teams.
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Tate Linden builds tools that help organizations understand why performance problems repeat, and how to fix them in a way that lasts.
He started his career in strategic communications, working for clients like Google, DARPA, and Meals on Wheels America. He specialized in bringing tangible behavior change to resistant audiences, and realized that the same theories he developed for that purpose could be even more powerful when applied within organizations themselves, where systems shape how people respond to pressure.
He created tools to help leaders see where problems are coming from, and to predict which changes can actually hold before investing time and effort.
Through Stokefire, he’s working with organizations and practitioners to apply this model in real-world settings.
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