JULIAN TALBOT

In 30 years of crisis management I can distill the success factors down to three things. Scenarios, lead indicators, and Plan Bs.

If you want to (or have to) use a risk matrix, here are some pitfalls to minimize the problems and maximize the benefits.

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...

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

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

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

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

An example of a risk management procedure and some templates that you can download to customize.

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,...

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...

"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...

“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...

"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...

*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...

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

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...

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

“Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.” - Hunter S. Thompson A lot of people spend a lot of time in life preparing corporate...

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

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

"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours." - Richard Bach Like many people, I grew up with parents who regularly gave...

"What a business needs most for its decisions — especially its strategic ones — are data about what goes on outside it. Only outside a...

“In this world there is nothing certain but death and taxes.” Benjamin Franklin Certainty, or at least the illusion of it, has become a...

My friend Stewart Hayes has been working in risk management for longer than I have (which is longer than either of us remember). As well...