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People think that doctors are immune to petty disagreements, but they're human beings, and sometimes ego and primitive emotions take over.
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September 13, 2018 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
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Essentially, it was by luck. At ongoing hearings, senior bank executive Clive van Horen explained that the error had escaped numerous internal bank controls that should have caught it. The error was finally uncovered after troubling questions were raised over the bank’s overdraft application process...
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April 25, 2018 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
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The 2.6 billion-rouble ($45 million) satellite — the Meteor M — was launched last month from Vostochny, with Roscosmos losing contact with it shortly after. It then emerged that the rocket carrying the satellite had been programmed with the wrong coordinates, and had instead been...
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March 3, 2018 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
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Being brutally honest can have surprising and humorous results.
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December 18, 2017 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
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Too many plans are based upon perfect execution and having no issues, even when no project they've ever managed has ever come close to such perfection.
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December 6, 2017 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
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As Smith outlines in his written testimony, the Department of Homeland Security’s Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) sent Equifax (alongside many other companies) a notice on March 8th, 2017 about the vulnerability in certain versions of Apache Struts. Equifax sent out an internal mass-email, which...
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November 15, 2017 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
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More money, more people and more time is not always the solution. Sometimes -- often times -- the solution is simply to take another approach, such as trusting people.
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June 25, 2015 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
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Talk to turnaround experts, or read a little history, and you'll hear this story repeatedly: There were people who raised the alarm, and they got shouted down.
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June 9, 2015 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
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Still, he says, the contractors are huge companies familiar with complexity, and in most cases they’ve had years to address the sites’ problems.
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May 1, 2014 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
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Maybe bureaucracy is actually helping, in this case, to diffuse the impact .... Talk about unintended consequences.
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April 2, 2013 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
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"You need to have more ‘gotcha’ fees, that’s how airlines make their money." Maybe Dogbert was on to something?
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February 28, 2013 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
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The COO said we had to guarantee that all future deliveries would be just as successful. I told her she couldn’t afford such a guarantee. She was not happy,
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February 14, 2013 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
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Management, being in charge and responsible for results, has to do something when things are not going right! Maybe not.
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March 30, 2012 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
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My boss appeared confused with my position. “No, no” he says “we have to get those panics down. Push them to focus first on the panics!”
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February 28, 2012 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
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In speaking with project managers, methodology masters and tool providers, it seems the key to successful technology adoption is to change the corporate culture.
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January 5, 2012 Bruce Benson
Change Management, Risk Management
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