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For the better part of two decades, almost every large organisation I have worked in or alongside followed the same ritual, and we followed it so faithfully that very few…
Read more →In my earlier article on harshness and firmness in leadership, I argued that you can hold people accountable without being cruel to them. There’s a related discipline that I think…
1. A confession about my response times If you have ever sent me an email, a Teams message, a WhatsApp or a LinkedIn note and heard nothing back, you were…
Someone sent me a reel this morning, a clip from Lewis Howes, and it stopped me. He was describing a conversation with a brain surgeon, someone who had performed over…
A root cause analysis exists to tell an organisation what it needs to fix, and yet a surprising number of the RCAs I have read over the years tell us…
For most of my career in algorithmic trading, the person most likely to break my code was somebody else. Trading systems change constantly, and the pain was rarely a single…
The plugin behind this post: Download CloudScale Cyber DevTools (free, zip) | Read the documentation Most technical blogs treat everything that is not prose as an afterthought. Code is pasted…
Read more →I should apologise up front for the length of this article. Every section answers a question real people are asking, and the length is a fair reflection of how much…
A model that can only answer from a menu you wrote cannot invent a number, but it can still pick the wrong item on the menu with great conviction, and…
Read more →Picture a business process that reaches the point where a customer must approve something important, where the intended control is an approval through their banking app, but the app has…
