Bryan’s Blog

Optify Your Advice

Optifying your advice is delivering the freedom to choose in the optimum way. Your optimum way. And it follows the Rule of Three. People like things in threes. Think of The Three Little Pigs or The Three Musketeers or Superman’s: ‘truth, justice and the American way’. Or ask Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: ‘Friends, Romans, Countrymen’; or

Risk-Speak is $#!t-Speak

I have long complained that the risk profession has made risk management needlessly complex. Part of it is the creation of our own language. Risk-speak. We put “risk” in front of or after perfectly normal words like conduct, appetite and reputation. By putting risk in front of or behind these words we feel we create

Beware Milestones

When you want to make a key point to a senior leader, a story is often the secret sauce you will need for it to land. Last week I wrote about the effect of the environment people find themselves in based on their willingness, or not, to take a risk to achieve a target. If

Lessons From Fiji

Bula! I’ve recently returned from a holiday in Fiji. When holidaying I often compare and contrast the local attitude to risk. Think road safety in some places of the world! Feels like complete insanity to us on first look and reduces to mild levels of insanity once you become more accustomed. Road safety in Fiji