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JudgeMENTAL
I love coming up with the cute, pithy, epigrammatic or aphoristic titles for my blogs ☺ I also love a good thesaurus! Last week I espoused the co-creation of a decision map to improve your team’s decisions. That is, to co-create a MENTAL model of how the decision is made and look for ways to
Go Mental
If you are going to fully operationalise your Risk Appetite Statement (RAS) you need to go mental. Developing Mental Models is what I am talking about. Let me explain. Over the past month I have suggested you need to: support your teams by documenting the organisation’s appetite for risk; guide their decision making by reviewing
Rolling Out – Craps
Craps is a gambling game using dice. It became well-known to me from the Hollywood movies of mid last century when players gathered around a Craps table and rolled and cheered or expressed their frustration at loss after loss. Before you start rolling out your Risk Appetite Statement (RAS), and devolving decision making to evolve
Devolve to Evolve
In their McKinsey article “Decision-making: how leaders can get out of the way”, Iskandar Amino, Aaron De Smet and Kanika Kakkar highlight the need to devolve decision making for organisations to become more agile. One thing they did not mention was that devolved decision making needs communication about the organisation’s appetite for risk in certain