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Evoking a Root Cause as the reason for failure is a failure of leadership Leadership means seeing what is coming, taking preventive and/or corrective actions through the application of Risk Management, which includes pre-mortems for what could possibly go wrong.... Read more →

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Comment is free, but facts are sacred -- C.P. Scott, editor of the Manchester Guardian, 1921 Read more →

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The first responsibility of the key leaders in the acquisition workforce is to think ‒ Frank Kendall, Under Secretary for Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics Read more →

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The only thing you can really control is how you react to things out of your control - Bassam Tarazi, from Carol Williams, Enterprise Risk Management Blog site Read more →

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“Never engage in a pissing match with a skunk: he possesses important natural advantages” - Sir Bryan Cartledge ex UK Ambassador in Moscow, from The Spy and The Traitor, Bem Macintyre Read more →

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indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus ("I become annoyed when the great Homer is being drowsy"). - Horace in Ars Poetica (c. 18 BC) Read more →

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Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19th-century transcendental philosopher from Selected Writings... Read more →

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"Until we are all free, we are none of us free." - Emma Lazarus Read more →

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“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.” ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22 Read more →

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“It’s not enough to understand; you’ve got to do something.” -- Sandra Day O’Connor Read more →

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When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of... Read more →