Four tests McKinsey authors Andrew Campbell and Jo Whitehead request managers and leaders to do before engaging in an instinct-based decision making process. Doing Familiarity, Feedback, Measured-Emotion and Independence tests do trigger events that would allow the human mind to be more conscious! The article does not specify what types of instinct-based decisions...

 Like the companies they run and oversee, CEOs and boards of directors in the financial sector have been battered by the credit meltdown. The witch’s brew of high leverage, poor risk management, creation of toxic assets, and faulty business judgments—made more poisonous by excessive short-term executive pay—are seen as failures of an unprecedented...

More than one in eight risk managers believe that they are ignored by their employer, according to data from Whitehead Mann, the City headhunter. The firm spoke to more than 50 professionals involved in compliance and internal audit at companies in the FTSE 100 and found that half of them did not believe that they had sufficient influence to manage risk properly at...

Whew! These are some challenging times. As I read the news daily I am struck by the fact that our economic woes are primarily management failures – failures in the areas of governance and strategy. This only inspires me to redouble my efforts to spread the word about integrating the strategic level of organizations with the task level via great project...