May 2012
Intermediate to advanced
279 pages
8h 15m
English


Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
—African proverb
This African proverb, according to Sommer (2003), literally means “Don’t look at your mistakes, look at what caused you to make the mistakes.” This philosophy about root cause analysis helps one dig deep and stay focused on finding the underlying reason for rather than just the symptoms of a problem. Unfortunately, many root cause analyses go astray. C. Robert Nelms (2003) has observed that
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