Bryan’s Blog

Bryan’s Blog: Experts Need Advocates

No one doubts your expertise. Staff know when they need to come to you. They know they won’t get their budget approved without engaging with finance, recruit without HR, get the final approval without compliance and on the list goes. The problem is their perception of what you do. Here is a list I would

Bryan’s Blog: Your sphere of influence should be more pear-shaped

I have been working with an organisation recently helping them to build a tribe amongst a tribe. It has been a joy watching staff self-organise to fulfil a common goal whilst having some fun along the way. What they are doing, however, isn’t easy. They are trying to influence a much larger tribe as a

Risk Leadership: We might be hindering something great

I was reading a great post by Paul Broadfoot about early warning systems in large organisations. At first it got me thinking about what great people we are in the risk profession as we help design early warning systems which many of us call Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) while others might simply refer to them

Bryan’s Blog: Press down on the accelerator, don’t design a new car

This year has started similarly to last with plenty on the airwaves about disruption and the need for innovation and THE strategy before someone else creates a category killer. The truth is, for every new strategy success story, there is a mountain of non-success stories. Not failures, just failures to come up with THE killer