Whether you are a director or an executive already well into the journey of developing and communicating your company’s strategic sustainability plans or in the earlier stages, the rising public demand for environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting is becoming a force that cannot be ignored by boards and management teams. Continue reading
Email is 50 this year…its Golden Anniversary! It ‘happened’ in 1971 when Ray Tomlinson, the late computer engineer and first user, sent a transmission to himself utilising two independent computers…a revolutionary innovation at the time. The content of that primordial message is long forgotten and the same may also be the fate of many of the ~300 billion emails that are sent almost every day by the estimated 4 billion users around the world. Communication is said to bring us together or set us apart and email is no different. Continue reading
The Ever Given grounding in the Suez Canal is one of those events that will be labeled a “Black Swan” for sure. A rouge wind hits the ship turning the stern and wedging the vessel, bow and stern grounded straddling the canal and stranding ships entering from either end. The date Tuesday 23 March 2021. At around 7.40 a.m. local time the Ever Given ran aground. At nearly 200 feet wide and 1,300 feet long, it easily took up the width of the channel. Continue reading
A new client in the Middle East had an appalling record of injuries, on reviewing accident reports, I found the management totally abdicated their responsibility, they did not find one underlying course of more than 40 accidents, and instead they blamed the workers, so I drafted the following letter for the meeting I had planned, Gentlemen, I thought I’d start by offering an apology to your not yet fatally injured workers who are going to die this year unless we do something differently. Continue reading
James J. Kline, Ph.D., CERM, is the author of over one seventy articles on quality in government and risk analysis. He is a senior member of the American Society for Quality. A Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence and a Six Sigma Green Belt. He has consulted for the private sector and local governments. His book, Enterprise Risk Management in Government: Implementing ISO 31000:2018, is available on Amazon. Continue reading