Young Men and Fire

The Collapse of Sensemaking in Organisations

In the summer of 1949, August the 5th, a small bushfire broke out in the Mann Gulch, just outside Missoula Montana. It was, as Timothy Egan in his detailed foreword to Norman Maclean‘s celebrated book on the tragedy „Young Men and Fire“ describes as „nothing special, even in a hot year: a couple of hundred acres burning in nearly inaccessible brush on …