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NEW BOOK PUBLISHED 1 OCTOBER – Why Companies Fail
July 8, 2026
Every major corporate scandal follows a familiar script. A company fails; lives are damaged, fortunes are lost, and the hunt for culprits begins. The media
Category: Risks And The Boardroom
Boardroom Confidential podcast: Interview
May 30, 2026
Risk and strategy go hand-in hand, but too often companies don’t think enough about risk. In this episode of Boardroom Confidential by Sherpany I discuss
Corporate Governance must be about people
April 3, 2024
32 years after the Cadbury Report defined modern corporate governance rules, corporate scandals continue to happen. Another version of the Corporate Governance Code came out
Life is a risk
November 24, 2023
Risk simply means that we are not sure about what will happen in the future. If you know everything about the future, you haven’t got
Why we still get risk wrong
May 25, 2021
A ‘government source’ is quoted in the Times (25 May 2021), trying to defend the government against accusations that it failed to prepare adequately for
Are you rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic? Taking corporate risk management seriously
February 7, 2020
I travelled from Tashkent to Moscow on an Aeroflot Ilyushin 86 in the early 1980s. The seats were basic metal framed deckchairs, screwed to the
How a bow-tie can smarten up corporate risks
February 27, 2018
Imagine that you are worried about your infirm mother and want to make sure that you do everything to protect her. If you adopted typical
Why you might want a pilot running your Risk Committee
September 22, 2015
There’s a saying in aviation: ‘Never fly in the same cockpit with someone braver than you’. Risk management for a pilot is literally a matter
Why you wouldn’t want a CEO piloting an airliner
September 22, 2015
The popular image of a pilot is of a dashing hero, who pulls off amazing feats of skill to save his aircraft from imminent disaster.
Why aviation is safer than the boardroom
September 22, 2015
The basic model of commercial aviation is a thin tube of highly pressurised metal being propelled at 600 miles per hour by inflammable fuel at