Only Human – News, Analysis, and Insights from the World of Human Performance · Dr. Tony Kern

Achieve Simplicity by Front-loading Complexity

June 24, 2025·20 min·1 clip

The host reveals the most dangerous mission in the fatigue study was the first, not the last.

The host analyzes the recent US B-2 bomber mission to Iran through the lens of human performance, drawing on his doctoral research on fatigue in long-duration flights. He explores how complex military planning must result in simple execution for operators, reveals counterintuitive findings about when fatigue is most dangerous, and extracts universal lessons for managing complexity and learning from outcomes in any organization.

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