You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. I thinking about pitching "Failure" as my PhD topic :) : comments.
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fear of failure
A similiar solution occurs in politics where the authorities cannot be seen to be doing nothing. The need to meddle in a situation to prove their innate value often causes problems. Especially when you combine both military and political situations.
I like engineering failure analysis, especially when you get to apply it to the jellyware components as well. However the problem with "there are no accidents in accident investigation" is that an engineering failure analysis is quite distinct from a legal failure analysis ("fault" as opposed to "blame"). However few people realise this, which makes working on an accident investigation team such ... fun.
Read Feynmann's third semi-autobiography for NASA dealing with the Columbia accident for example. he, the physicist, wanted to know what happened. The rest of the team wanted to know who was getting the blame.
Remember that both bureacracies and committees are mechanisms that remove fault and responsibility from individuals, which is why they are so ineffective.
Re: fear of failure
I'm interested in engineering failure analysis, AND legal failure analysis - damn technerdy lawyer. I'm leaning more towards legal-technical system failure analysis. Actually, I'm considering options and looking for some advice because whatever I pursue, there needs to be a real job at the end.
More stuff to read. Cool!
Indubitably.
Doesn't stop me from wanting systems to not only work, but to achieve something ...