A lot of people out there are talking about the direct impacts to themselves of the global mandatory and voluntary lockdowns enacted to control the spread of COVID-19. This continued spread would be the direct risk of unrestricted physical contact, and the impact, as we’ve seen, clearly has the ability to cause the ultimate impact […]
When the “gold standard” turns out to be the foil wrapper off a 25¢ piece of chocolate
Funnily enough, just like with governance itself, there’s both good and bad guidance about governance. Now, “bad” may be in the eye of the beholder for sure, so on this Turkey-day in the US, I’m going to briefly go hunting some sacred cows instead of flightless birds. When I was a kid, my parents used […]
The Organizational Governance Mapper 9000
One of the shows my kids like to watch is Rusty Rivets, where Rusty and his friend Ruby and their team of robots create all kinds of crazy machines out of recycled parts to solve problems (and most of the time, problems they’ve inadvertently created for themselves). For example, Rusty and Ruby get his great […]
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 […]
