leadership behaviours

New challenges for risk managers

Risk managers in organizations have long understood that, contrary to popular belief, they don’t control risk. Their challenge has always been striking the right balance between the risk an organization is exposed to and achieving its objectives. Risk management therefore cannot be divorced from the overall strategic orientation of an organization and risk management is the responsibility of everyone in the organization who makes key decisions that affect risk exposure.

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To what extent would you cheat?

Recently the news has headlined the expenses of MPs. MPs seem to fall into 3 camps:

  1. those who have been extremely modest in their claims;
  2. those who have claimed within the rules but whose claims seem excessive
  3. those who appear to have made claims outside of the rules.

It has not been a good time for politicians, but it does raise interesting questions about our own predisposition to 'cheating'.

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