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Bryan’s Blog: Play your Trump Card

Whether you love him or hate him, it must be said that Donald Trump has been a master in getting some people to listen to him, to agree with him, even like what he has to say.  He cuts through all the clutter and paints a picture that many people want to see. No matter

Bryan’s Blog: Don’t just be a colour-ineror

When I was a wee kid working on a group project, we would always ask “Who is going to be the colour-ineror?  Well just last week a friend of mine reminded me of the term when I was listing support functions that sometimes struggle to make a difference to the business. I was listing finance,

Risk Leadership: Matching employees to risk appetite

For those of you with a defined risk appetite, do you define it at business unit level and then work to ensure you match employee preference for risk taking to the appetite for risk you want a particular business unit to have? Perhaps you feel this is done implicitly? Is that good enough? Is it

Bryan’s Blog: Don’t blame them – they are not the problem

I recently had one of the most cathartic conversations of my career. It was with a senior internal advisor who is now in audit but has held all kinds of roles in the organisation so he gets what support functions do, why they do it and, much to his chagrin, how they do it. The

Risk Leadership: The use of knowledge as facts in risk assessment

My friend Dr. Emily Verstege, via her LinkedIn post Gone walkabout: Pedestrian data is lost data, brought an article by Reid Hoffman to my attention about Artificial Intelligence and how it is on the cusp of “humanising management” by “setting information free”. It got me thinking about something I have been ranting about since I