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Most of my books are about risk or security, but I write about any topics that take my interest, so I've tagged them by general categories in the links below. The Triple3 link, for example, will take you excerpts from a book I'm working on based on my experiences of How to Increase Your Income 33% every 3 Years.

I live in the UK but have lived on five continents so you can safely assume that my residence here is temporary. I travel a lot, consult, write books, speak at conferences, and work with startups.

Meanwhile, you can find the graphics and excerpts from my latest book, the Security Risk Management Aide-Mémoire (SRMAM), at this link. I also read a lot and share the more interesting articles, books, or ideas I come across via LinkedIn.

Last but not least, if you subscribe, I will send you the occasional email to let you know when I post another article or make my books available for free on Amazon (which I do from time to time).

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How To Use A Risk Matrix

One of the big problems with risk matrices starts when you design the matrix. But there are ways to fix that.

13 min

Keep calm. And stop believing.

I used to believe in climate change. Growing up in the 1960s, our backyard abutted the grounds of one of the largest sugar mills in Australia. My brother and...

2 min

The future of enterprise and risk management?

Imagine a system that monitors inputs, processes and outputs, tracking culture, and organizational behaviors.

3 min

How to write a non-fiction book

If you have been thinking about writing a non-fiction book, here is the process I use: 1. Block out a few weekends to write the book. How hard can it be? Rig...

27 min

How to Turn a Job Interview Into a Job Offer

Job interviews are just a skill. Like any other, but more important than many because they can influence your whole life.

6 min

Risk BowTie Method

Bow-Tie is one of the simplest but most helpful risk management tools in the risk management arsenal. And it's highly visual.

3 min

How to measure ALARP

ALARP (As Low As Reasonably Practicable) is a fundamental concept in risk management, as it should be in life in general. It expresses the idea that we shoul...

6 min

An example of a Risk Management Procedure

In case you haven't gathered, I'm a fan of straightforward documents. This is especially true of when you want people to take action. Fifty page procedures r...

6 min

Likelihood versus consequence management...

It often seems that as a species; at least in most societies; that we spend most of our efforts on managing risks after they occur, rather than preventing th...

3 min

Swiss Cheese Theory

I love Swiss cheese. And I’m not talking about the dairy comestible. In my view, there are better cheeses out there – but few better risk management concepts...

6 min

Why are dangerous places safe? Lessons from HROs

"I felt exactly how you would feel if you were getting ready to launch and knew you were sitting on top of 2 million parts — all built by the lowest bidder o...

4 min

Risk Semantics - aka Terms and definitions

“I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.” Bob Dylan It might be tempting to sk...

4 min

What gets measured is NOT what gets managed

"What gets measured, gets managed." Peter Drucker is often attributed with this quote but he probably wasn't the first to say it and the origin of this expre...

4 min

Risk management should create and protect value

*It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are." – Roy Disney ISO31000 (Section 3, Part A) says that risk management should create and p...

6 min

Talbot's Top Ten Leadership Myths

“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” - Peter Drucker Leadership, although largely talked about, has been described as on...

3 min

Three fundamentals of Key Performance Indicators

Figure 1: Mockup of a KPI reporting dashboard Measuring performance seems complex (and it is) but let's not lose sight of the basics. The trick with key perf...

5 min

As High or Low As Reasonably Practicable (AHLARP)

The traditional view of managing risk to be as low as reasonably practicable (ALARP) is fine for negative risk. Unfortunately for ALARP, the ISO31000 definit...

5 min

Ten Tips for Presenting Great Documents

“Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.” - Hunter S. Thompson A lot of people spend a lot of time in life preparing corporate documents that never get r...

4 min

How To Achieve What You Are Gifted For

Marie Curie knew something about success. The first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris, the first woman to win a Nobel prize, and the fir...

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Believe half of what you see and a quarter of what you read ...

I've worked on five continents, in dozens of industries, in the government, private sector and not-for-profit arena and wherever I went, one theme emerged. T...

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I live in the UK but have lived on five continents so you can safely assume that my residence here is temporary. I travel a lot, consult, write books, speak at conferences, and work with startups.

Meanwhile, you can find the graphics and excerpts from my latest book, the Security Risk Management Aide-Mémoire (SRMAM), at this link. I also read a lot and share the more interesting articles, books, or ideas I come across via LinkedIn.

Last but not least, if you subscribe, I will send you the occasional email to let you know when I post another article or make my books available for free on Amazon (which I do from time to time).

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How To Use A Risk Matrix

Keep calm. And stop believing.

The future of enterprise and risk management?

How to write a non-fiction book

How to Turn a Job Interview Into a Job Offer

Risk BowTie Method

How to measure ALARP

An example of a Risk Management Procedure

Likelihood versus consequence management...

Swiss Cheese Theory

Why are dangerous places safe? Lessons from HROs

Risk Semantics - aka Terms and definitions

What gets measured is NOT what gets managed

Risk management should create and protect value

Talbot's Top Ten Leadership Myths

Three fundamentals of Key Performance Indicators

As High or Low As Reasonably Practicable (AHLARP)

Ten Tips for Presenting Great Documents

How To Achieve What You Are Gifted For

Believe half of what you see and a quarter of what you read ...