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Full text of the six chapters of The O'Neill Effect, with timestamp markers so you can watch and read in parallel.
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TRAILER · 1 min
Andreza's invitation
Opening trailer for the series The O'Neill Effect, where Andreza Araújo invites the audience to walk with her through the path of Paul H. O'Neill, former CEO of Alcoa, across five episodes on leadership, culture, and the real cost of care.
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EPISODE 1 · 8 min
The day Wall Street heard about deaths
In October 1987, Paul H. O'Neill took over Alcoa in a meeting that would change the history of safety leadership. Three months later, the fatal accident in Phoenix, Arizona, would define the next thirteen years of the company.
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EPISODE 2 · 6 min
The 5 pillars of caring that save lives
Under the concept of caring, Paul O'Neill structured five simultaneous conditions that had to be in place before any safety indicator could be pursued. The five pillars and the three questions every Alcoa worker had to be able to answer affirmatively, every day.
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EPISODE 3 · 3 min
Is zero accidents possible?
The goal of zero accidents ran into two beliefs that locked the market: it would cost too much, and no one would stop doing risky things. How Paul O'Neill confronted both, and what made the journey possible.
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EPISODE 4 · 5 min
The 5 principles of safety leadership
For Paul O'Neill, safety was not a priority, it was a precondition — like breathing. The five leadership principles that sustained Alcoa's transformation, from radical transparency about accidents to leading by example on the shop floor.
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EPISODE 5 · 3 min
One habit, one revolution
Charles Duhigg, in The Power of Habit, describes the Alcoa case as the classic example of a keystone habit. How a single decision repeated every day triggered a chain transformation that changed communication, standardization, transparency, and the very operating model of the company.
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