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Synthesise your framework

Last week I had leadership expert Ingrid Messner present on Wise Leadership to my Risk Leadership group. One of her leadership tips on influencing stakeholders was to apply systems thinking. To develop...

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Intelligent Risk Taking

Next week I am hosting a roundtable discussion on the future of risk frameworks. I am uncertain as to what may be discovered, however, what I do know is that the topic is of interest. The seats filled...

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Control Geeks not Freaks

Process control has a very specific meaning in the chemical industry. It refers to the system used for controlling a chemical plant. All the various instruments on pumps, vessels, reactors, heat...

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Thodey Nailed It

I have shared this story before and I just have to share it again as I told it no fewer than six times this week in various presentations and training programs. It is the story of David Thodey, when...

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Information Superhighways

How does information we need for decision making flow through the human body to the brain? The brain gets information from ‘the extremities of our organisation’ (our body) via our five senses: hearing,...

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Implementing through doom and gloom

Four years ago I wrote about Implementing in the Dark. In it I pointed out that the scorecard for executive teams when it comes to major, strategic decisions is pretty poor. With fail rates estimated...

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Painting Murals

I have long been speaking about painting pictures to influence others. One of the great things that has come out of the pandemic has been the successful shift to online learning and online facilitating...

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Selling Ice to Eskimos

“It’s like selling ice to Eskimos” is a great saying. If you are not familiar with it, it is used to explain that something is very hard to sell. On the other hand, the saying “He/she could sell ice to...

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Modifying your DNA

No, not yours, your organisation’s! When I engage with senior leaders on their appetite for risk, I talk about embedding it in the DNA of the organisation. Why? Because it is critical for...

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Hard Choices

Hard choices slow us down. Last week I wrote about ensuring staff understand the organisation’s appetite for risk to speed up decision making. I have also been heard to say that helping organisations...

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Summary in Detail

I got the term “summary in detail” from a fantastic client of mine who I worked with for near on a decade. We were presenting a risk profile in a meeting and at one end of the table someone was...

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Immaturity Provides Opportunity

Organisations that have a low level of maturity when it comes to risk-based decision making have a lot of untapped potential. The explanation is in the tag line to my latest book Risky Business: How...

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Reactivity Leads to Captivity

Taking a reactive approach to risk management means we are captive to limited thinking. This blog was prompted by a question from a participant in the webinar I ran with Camms Group last month on Risk...

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Selling Resilience

This week I’m sharing my paper ‘Selling Resilience’ with you that I wrote for those who understand the benefits of building resilience to enshrine organisational value and know that convincing the...

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A new take on sailing

Thankfully, when the world went online last year, I was in front of the curve having already run online workshops for some clients. However for obvious reasons the demand for running risk workshops...

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No Regrets

We are all prone to impulsiveness at different times. Sometimes that can lead to one hell of a fun ride and other times it can lead to regret. For a no regrets lifestyle we need to work with our...

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Poo Poo the Poo Poo-ers

My first Poo Poo the Poo Poo-ers blog was back in January 2018. I was writing about resistors, the Poo Poo-ers of new ideas because of reading this article from the Harvard Business Review Overcome...

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Fighting your way inside the tent

Have you ever thought about why internal advisors such as accountants, lawyers, risk managers, auditors, HR managers, IT managers and many other back-of-house advisors struggle to ensure their advice...

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Roles Played

It’s interesting how so many things scale in unison. In large organisations there is often talk about silos. But silos exist in small organisations as well. Even for my organisation of three. Me, my...

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ETU

ETU or Expect the Unexpected has never been more apt a saying than over the past 21 months. And, with a wee few headline (ha!) about Omicron to remind us as we start winding down for the calendar year...

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