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Risk Leadership: Risk vs Resilience

Over the past six months I have become involved with Jason Gotch and his Organisational Resilience Working Group which has a dedicated LinkedIn Group if you are interested in joining. Yesterday I replied to an email from a member in the group on the topic of Organisational Resilience vs Risk Management and gave some thoughts

Bryan’s Blog: Difficult choices – the answer lies within

When a decision is a tough one, it is often a choice between two alternatives that could both end up with “similar” results. Similar can be as in comparing a Navel orange to a Valencia orange or a Navel orange to a Granny Smith apple or a Navel orange to a mango or snow peas

Risk Leadership: Risk Leadership means having something to say

On Friday I was meeting with a GM of a major bank.  A non-risk professional working in the “Line 1” which is risk speak for the first line of defence in the Three Lines of Defence (3LOD) risk management model.  I commented that the biggest challenge facing the risk profession was getting our message across. 

Bryan’s Blog: Following intuition takes guts

Intuition can be a powerful decision tool, however it is so often misused. If you are not aware of the times when you could or should follow your intuition then you are most likely taking a big chance on the outcome – then you will certainly need guts. The times you should use intuition are

Risk Leadership: Risk Managing Intuition

It’s nice to be made aware of some different thinking to your own in areas that one is focusing on.  This happened to me last week.  I, along with many of you have been preaching risk-based decision making for a long time and along comes this advice to students at Stamford University Graduate School of