# Collective Mind in Organizations: Heedful Interrelating on Flight Decks

*Weick · Team Learning · Administrative Science Quarterly · 1993 · Paywalled*

Introduced 'collective mind' — the way groups develop heedful interrelating, a form of attentive, connected action that makes complex systems reliable. Based on naval flight deck operations. Argues that reliability is a social achievement, not a technical one, and that heedfulness — attending carefully to others' contributions — is what prevents catastrophic failure.

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