Internal audit's added value - the NSA perspective (kind of)
This excellent article by David Silverman illustrates the challenging nature of internal audit's profession.
We do get a bad rap, quite often. Enjoy the article.
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Industrialisation already ran this experiment, and we are misreading the result
Companies are removing people this year to capture a productivity gain that, on their own account, has not arrived. Read that twice. Both halves are documented. The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis ran about 490,000 earnings call transcripts from 5,198 publicly traded US firms to see how
Your Dysfunctional Organisation Is Working Exactly as Designed
There is a sentence in systems literature that removes your right to complain about your own organisation. David Peter Stroh states it plainly in Systems Thinking for Social Change: systems are perfectly designed to achieve the results they are currently achieving. No matter how dysfunctional a system appears to be,
The Silvering
1 Arthur Wren had stopped looking at himself in mirrors around the time other people stopped looking at him. He placed that somewhere in his early sixties, well before Maggie got sick. So he could not blame it on the grief. It was an arrangement that suited everyone. He shaved
OKRs work brilliantly on complicated systems and fail on complex ones
Most organisations adopting OKRs today are using a tool built for engineering teams to solve problems that are not engineering problems. The framework works. It often works very well. It does not work everywhere. I spent the first part of my career as an internal auditor, and one of the