• Fixing the Black Elephant in the room

    Andrew Bulmer, CEO at The Property Institute, posted on Saturday (the 8th anniversary of the Grenfell Fire tragedy) about Peter Apps speaking at their annual conference in May.
    Pete explained the concept of a Black Elephant to describe Grenfell. The black elephant was eloquently articulated in Gill Kernick’s book, Catastrophe and Systemic Change.
    Whilst a Black Swan event is a high impact event that could not have been predicted, an unknown unknown, Grenfell was a known unknown: we knew it

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