I have to admit I was a bit stuck today when I was trying to decide what to write about. I mean, I have about 20 different emails in the queue about this month’s Security Sanity™ issue on governance, but all I could think of earlier was boring stuff… …or doom and gloom examples from […]
A bit o’ birth control for organizational decision making
If there’s one thing that seems to be multiplying like rabbits in the modern organization, it’s the number of people who think they’re critical to making a decision. C’mon…I know you’ve seen this too. You have a meeting, and 10 unexpected – and uninvited – people show up, or the CC line of an email […]
Well, hello ServiceException. I didn’t expect to see you here
And, no, I’m certainly not interested in whether it would like to “come up and see me sometime” either, thank you very much. Today, I’d like to tell you a tale of the impact of poorly communicated, and possibly, poorly understood governance relationships in our much-reviled public electricity network here in South Africa. A quick […]
Blaming the billionaire boogymen
Over the weekend, I happened on a particular post in my Twitter feed that actually irritated me enough that I’m still thinking about it this morning as I write this email. The scene was somewhere in an urban, 3rd-world setting where a family with three small children were filmed lying in the street. The children […]
To all the succa RACIs who think they’re fly
For some people, it’s spiders. For some people, it’s fingernails down the blackboard… For me…it’s discovering a RACI chart being trotted out as the “solution” to a governance breakdown. I mean, the hairs on the back of my neck stand up…my eyelid starts to twitch…my hands begin to shake…and all I want to do is […]
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