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Paper illustration for Accountability Ladder
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Accountability Ladder
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Systems Thinking
Current Reality Tree
Paper illustration for Root Cause Analysis.
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Root Cause Analysis
Purposedifferent
With defensive reactions to problems, the method shifts the view from justification to ownership. It makes visible which reaction stage a person or team is currently stuck on.A Current Reality Tree condenses many symptoms into a few causal chains. The method makes visible which core problems drive several negative effects at once.When a problem keeps recurring and the cause stays unclear, the method exposes the underlying mechanism. It separates symptom, guess, and robust explanation from one another.
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20-45 min2-6 h1-4 h
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1-83-83-8
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Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
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Ownership Reflection, Action Commitment, Coaching NotesCurrent Reality Tree, Core Problems, Intervention IdeasProblem Statement, Cause Hypotheses, Confirmed Causes, Action Plan
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ResponsibilityLeadershipTeam
Systems thinkingRoot causeConstraintsCausality
Root causeProblem solvingQualityIncident
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