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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
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Politician, heal thyself
June 19, 2023
A company with just £24m annual revenue goes bankrupt with £1.9 bn of debts and a further £0.6m financing commitments. It made two appallingly large
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