I was researching about decision-making (again) recently and I came across this article by the late Dr Russell Ackoff, a “Systems Thinker”, called “Why few organisations adopt systems thinking”. In the article Dr Ackoff writes about how organisations are naturally resistant to change and opines on our tendency to find a scapegoat when things go
As a Trusted Advisor in Risk do you focus on all the decisions the business is making or do you focus on the big issues? I bet you thought to yourself, of course I focus on the big issues, they are the ones that count. Now, what if I asked you, “as a Trusted
I was reading a recent article from Knowledge@Wharton called “It’s Worth What!? Pressure-testing Companies with Sky-high Valuations” based on a book by Derek Lidow about Startups and what leadership style is needed at which point. So if you are a stock market punter it is worth a full read. I was attracted to the article because
If you have attended a workshop or speech of mine in the last 10 years you may well have been exposed to my version of the risk management journey for organisations from Vulnerable to Resilient. I portray the journey using an S-Curve, as shown here: The nature of an S-Curve is that it is
The MIT Sloan Management Review and Deloitte University Press have collaborated to produce an excellent paper on the value of social media. It is titled Moving Beyond Marketing and it can be found here. The article made me realise that if all an organisation is doing is using social media for communicating messages and monitoring