INVESTIGATING INVESTIGATIONS
to advance the
State-of-the-Art of investigations, through
investigation process research.
Research Resources:
Search site for::
Launched Aug 26 1996.
| |
TOP 10 MES AXIOMS
For Improving Investigation Performance
© 1979-2003 by Ludwig Benner, Jr. .All rights reserved.
1 |
If you can't flow chart it, you don't understand it.
W Johnson
|
2 | Everyone and everything always have to be someplace, doing something, during an occurrence.
L Benner
|
3 | Always expect everyone to act in what they perceive to be their own best interests, and you'll never be disappointed.
W G Meeker
|
4 | Change is the Mother of twins:
Progress and Trouble.
W Johnson
|
5 | Things react predictably without thinking during occurrences and tell all ---- but only if you can "read" what they "say."!
L Benner, derived from observations
|
6 | Observer (witness) has it; you need it; and observer (witness) doesn't have to give it to you.
L Benner, derived from experience
|
7 | No test plan, no test!
L Benner, derived from experience
|
8 | Abstractions cover up poor investigations.
derived from S.I Hayakawa
|
9 | Experienced judgment recycles yesterday's problems.
derived from W. Johnson
|
10 | Alleged "cause(s)" or cause factors, root causes, proximate causes or other causes of an occurrence mask illusions of knowledge.
derived from D. Boorstein |
|