Both have added the prefix "Dr." to their names, authored books, and are currently on the payroll of Harvard, but neither followed a standard, linear path to get there. His new book, Dark Horse, authored with Ogi Ogas, tells the story of the those who don't adhere to the average, who don't follow the standard formula, and achieve great success anyway. Rose's larger concern in The End of Average is whether we've designed our society, our organizations and educational institutions, with that same fatal flaw. “If you’ve designed a cockpit to fit the average pilot,” Todd Rose tells us, “you’ve actually designed it to fit no one.” The literally fatal flaw was that the average pilot doesn’t exist. The cockpits were designed for an average sized pilot, based on the physical dimensions of hundreds of male pilots measured in 1926. But it turned out their was a fundamental flaw in the design. Todd Rose's first book, The End of Average, was a revelation. He opens the book discussing an unusual number of crashes occurring during Air Force training in the 1940s-most of them being chalked up to human error because, although the pilots were trained very well, the planes themselves were not found to be malfunctioning.
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