Talk:Nut Island effect

Occurrences of the term

The use of the term "Nut Island effect" to describe a downward communications spiral among managers and autonomous teams has arisen in several contexts. For example,

• In 2004, a Honolulu Star Bulletin editorial commenting on a State of Hawaii auditor report that refers to problems at a state arboretum [1] concludes with the statement "Legislators should not authorize such an expenditure unless given some assurance that Lyon Arboretum will no longer be a Nut Island."

• Kenneth A. Bamberger, writing in the Duke Law Journal in 2006 about organizational insensitivity to risks: "External shocks, of the type that occur naturally in the market, provide the model for purposive attempts to improve decisionmaking through direct measures. Whereas routines, by means of the Nut Island Effect, mask gradual change through adaptation, rapid [*pg 440] environmental transformations -- external shocks -- focus attention." Duke Law Journal

• Professional senior management consultant and former UK government official James Cooke, discussing groupthink and the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster uses the term generically when writing about group dynamics. He refers readers to his summary of the effect.[2]

• On wildlandfire.com, a Gridley, California based wildland firefighters forum, a 5/29/08 entry and a 5/30/08 reply refer to Nut Island as a negative condition in discussing high reliability organizations (HROs): "... perhaps the fire service within the forest service is experiencing a grand-scale Nut Island Effect." http://www.wildlandfire.com/arc/2008e_may.htm

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