“After years of serving as an IT auditor and consultant, I have extrapolated that many of the largest organizational formations needed effective… — Robert E. Davis Copy Share Image
“Where's the fun in playing with knives if you can't draw a little blood?” — Donald Gorman Copy Share Image
“Ethical governance fosters a culture of integrity and accountability within the organization. This can lead to improved employee engagement, reduced misconduct, and… — Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr Copy Share Image
Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Not taking risks one doesn't understand is often the best form of risk management.” — Raghuram G. Rajan Copy Share Image
Risk management is a more realistic term than safety. It implies that hazards are ever-present, that they must be identified, analyzed, evaluated… — Jerome F. Lederer Copy Share Image
When you see data, doubt [them]! When you see measurements, doubt them! — Kaoru Ishikawa Copy Share Image
There are three ways to get better figures... Improve the system... Distort the system... Distort the figures — Brian L. Joiner Copy Share Image
Stronger regulation and supervision aimed at problems with underwriting practices and lenders' risk management would have been a more effective and surgical… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
The aim proposed here for any organization is for everybody to gain - stockholders, employees, suppliers, customers, community, the environment - over… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
The common objection to seniority pay is, "It's rewarding dead wood!" My response is, "Why do you hire dead wood? Or why… — Peter R. Scholtes Copy Share Image
“You cannot manage risk, or for that matter, build a risk management capability without first understanding the “business value of risk management.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better… — Samuel Wilson Copy Share Image
Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios.… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
High leverage is unsafe, not just for a company but the entire economy... LBOs are reducing the safety. Management loses the power… — Franco Modigliani Copy Share Image
“You don't have to believe in coincidences because they happen every day. The trick is to be able to discern when something… — Glenn Jones Copy Share Image
One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image