Post by Lester Clark

Today is the 50th anniversary of the Seveso disaster. A chemical plant in northern Italy. A reactor left unmonitored over a weekend. A dioxin cloud over four towns. Most people who are aware of the disaster know the outcome. Very few know the decision sequence that produced it. There were two failures at Seveso. The first was inside the plant, before the explosion. The second was in the ten days that followed, when the company already had the laboratory confirmation and said nothing. Both are recognisable patterns. Neither required ignorance. Both required a frame that had closed before the evidence was complete. I've written about both in a full LinkedIn Article published today, and in a two-part series on Substack for anyone who wants the deeper analysis. The Seveso Directive changed what organisations are required to disclose. It is still in force, substantially revised, across Europe today. What it could not legislate for is what organisations fail to see. That problem is fifty years old. It has not aged. #DontDelayReality #DecisionMaking #Leaders