Grant Purdy, Roger Estall: The drivers

Grant Purdy and Roger Estall have recently published a book on decision-making called Deciding. Written to help decision makers (they call them Deciders) to make ‘even better decisions’ it goes directly to the two big challenges for every Decider – ensuring that each decision will contribute to (rather than detract from) achieving the purpose of… Continue reading Grant Purdy, Roger Estall: The drivers

Grant Purdy, Roger Estall: Evolution as a ‘belief system’

Grant Purdy and Roger Estall have recently published a book on decision-making called Deciding. Written to help decision makers (they call them Deciders) to make ‘even better decisions’ it goes directly to the two big challenges for every Decider – ensuring that each decision will contribute to (rather than detract from) achieving the purpose of… Continue reading Grant Purdy, Roger Estall: Evolution as a ‘belief system’

Grant Purdy, Roger Estall: The label ‘risk management’

Grant Purdy and Roger Estall have recently published a book on decision-making called Deciding. Written to help decision makers (they call them Deciders) to make ‘even better decisions’ it goes directly to the two big challenges for every Decider – ensuring that each decision will contribute to (rather than detract from) achieving the purpose of… Continue reading Grant Purdy, Roger Estall: The label ‘risk management’

Grant Purdy, Roger Estall: Avoiding unintended outcomes

Grant Purdy and Roger Estall have recently published a book on decision-making called Deciding. Written to help decision makers (they call them Deciders) to make ‘even better decisions’ it goes directly to the two big challenges for every Decider – ensuring that each decision will contribute to (rather than detract from) achieving the purpose of… Continue reading Grant Purdy, Roger Estall: Avoiding unintended outcomes

Grant Purdy, Roger Estall: Deciding

Grant Purdy and Roger Estall have recently published a book on decision-making called Deciding. Written to help decision makers (they call them Deciders) to make ‘even better decisions’ it goes directly to the two big challenges for every Decider – ensuring that each decision will contribute to (rather than detract from) achieving the purpose of… Continue reading Grant Purdy, Roger Estall: Deciding

COVID-19 makes people crazy… and reckless with money. Don’t make the same mistakes

Every few months a group of the best risk managers in Russia play the lottery. Not for the thrills you might expect, but for the calculated and low-risk profits. I have written a series of articles about this, showing some of the logic, the math and the returns we got. Well, yet another big game was… Continue reading COVID-19 makes people crazy… and reckless with money. Don’t make the same mistakes

COVID-19 list of possible risk responses for your company, no bs

At the time of the crisis, risk community should come together and better collaborate on the risk responses our companies are doing. I’ve read so much on COVID-19 lately, most are fascinating reads, very few, if any, are practical enough to implement as an in-house CRO, so I tried to list some of the best ideas… Continue reading COVID-19 list of possible risk responses for your company, no bs

Sometimes avoiding risk is the best bet (pun intended)

Every few months a group of the best risk managers in Russia play the lottery. Not for the thrills you might expect, but for the calculated and low-risk profits. I have written a series of articles about this, showing some of the logic and the math. Well, another big game was yesterday. We did the… Continue reading Sometimes avoiding risk is the best bet (pun intended)

CRO DIARY: We are so busy chasing the next “sexiest” risk, we miss the forest for the trees

Recently, I sat down to do my weekly Wednesday live stream. Normally I share stories, answer questions and discuss lessons I learned as a Chief Risk Officer, but this time I wanted to talk about something else. Something that has been troubling me for a while. The fundamental flaws in decision making and risk management.… Continue reading CRO DIARY: We are so busy chasing the next “sexiest” risk, we miss the forest for the trees

Real life application of quantitative risk analysis, an excellent case study

Can 17 risk managers double their money in just 2 days with no luck and using only quantitative risk analysis? Find out in this short case study. The problem  To test how well quantitative risk analysis performs I wanted a real life situations, where odds were known and the stakes were high. National lottery looked… Continue reading Real life application of quantitative risk analysis, an excellent case study