As a continuing series about making effective community decisions, the book The Moment Of Oh! Will be posted a chapter at a time. This is the second post entitled: Continue reading
Is plausible deniability dead?
One strategy of corporate counsel that has been shown in various media reports is “plausible deniability”. Ethics rules for attorneys may require them to reveal compromising facts to the opposing side. If you can show you didn’t know that the plant could blow up and it blew up; then it may not be your fault. Nice legal term called ‘legal causation’. No facts to prove the case. Sorry victims, it was an act of God, an accident.
The quality of your life depends on the water you drink, the air you breathe, the roads you drive, and the power you have. Period.
In other words, the quality of your life depends on your access and availability of electricity, water, roads, bridges, and power or in other words your infrastructure.
COSO released a new thought paper in October, authored by representatives from Deloitte, titled Risk Assessment in Practice. [Download the paper here.]
This could be a game changer for ERM assessments. The thought paper [that] “provides the latest thinking on risk assessment approaches and techniques that have emerged as the most useful and sustainable for decision-making.”
This is the era of the Moose Lodge associations. If you’ve attended a medical, engineering, quality, or some other association professional meeting or conference lately, what was the median age of folks?
So, what’s a Moose Lodge. If you’re old enough, you’ll remember the Lodges – Elks, Masons, and even Moose. These fraternal lodges were key in our nation’s history. Many of the founders of the United States were Masons. The lodges did a lot of good. They were service organizations in the best sense of the word. They provided support to soldiers coming back from war. They were the social net and social glue in many communities. Continue reading