Whereas a person approach assumes that errors result largely from uniquely personal failures, the system approach suggests that the errors stem from identifiable patterns or tendencies, either within human beings in general or in the system's environment.
We don't elect people who are always talking about their personal failures and fragilities.
On the contrary, "Most attackers had difficulty coping with significant losses or personal failures".
All of our sins must be confessed, all of our personal failures and weaknesses are revealed.
"I think the faults overwhelmingly have been more personal faults, personal failures, rather than structures".
There is recent precedent for a politician addressing personal failures before a return to the political stage.
(And hands up if you still cite his leather trousers storyline as a touchstone for your own personal failures).
It may be seen that Cameron's personal failures were his party's saving, a fate in reverse for Blair and Labour.
The notion that they might not be unique was distressing but any differences between them felt like personal failures.
This is the tone for the whole episode: a man who's come to terms with his personal failures and is simply trying to make amends.
There may be institutional as well as personal failures – a healthy reluctance to manage editorial decisions downward may have grown warped into a failure to refer conflict up.
