Climate change is a huge issue, environmental pollution is a huge issue, social inequality and everything else typically bundled under the ESG umbrella are important issues totally deserving the management attention. This article is about something else entirely, so keep your system 1 thinking in check and carry on reading. Continue reading
I bet every person working in a large corporation or reading me on LinkedIn knows at least one risk manager. Maybe you like them, maybe you ignore them, but can you tell whether your risk manager friend is a “USER” or a “GENERATOR”? Sam Savage has been popularising the idea of different risk management roles for years and after doing few webcasts with him, I have to agree. Read on and let me know what you think. Continue reading
Many organizations get so caught up in what they currently do and how they do it, that they cannot find ways to effectively improve how they operate and experience the growth that stems from that kind of change. Plotting a path to organizational growth, especially based on the projects it chooses to execute, can be a challenge. The fundamental elements are not overly complicated, but the work to make the change is hard. Continue reading
Corporations that create in this world facilitate so many integral pieces to contemporary life by way of manufacturing. Manufacturing is quite literally a backbone to so many other industries, generating components for medical devices, automobiles, electronics, and machinery that keeps everything progressing forward. All of these components frequently need to be replaced, or more often upgraded thanks to new innovations that create new capabilities and in turn create new needs. Continue reading
When the tourist asked the way to Dublin the response was:
“If I was you, I would not start from here!” (Old Irish joke).
It has become fashionable for management perspectives to be risk orientated or biased and even attempt to view all endeavour from a risk perspective however contorted and illogical the resulting picture. It is counter to the logical and intuitive way that we experience the world and inhibits a more holistic and integrated approach to management. Continue reading