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Ever seen a dog at work?  For example, I was watching one searching bags for drugs in an airport.  They are totally committed and love it. Question: How many people are that happy at their work?  What does it say about mission, culture, etc?

Given the COVID shutdowns I've not traveled any this year, and the time at home gave wife and me the opportunity to binge watch some TV series we'd not seen before (and in many cases hadn't even hear of).  Most involve spies, detectives, and/or science fiction, Here's...

For some time I (and many others) have been writing and speaking on how common widely used risk assessment methods actually introduce risk rather than help reduce it. Here's a great talk by Doug Hubbard on the topic:...

First let me state that I am not a medical professional, and have not read all the studies that have been done on whether or not HCQ (+ zinc and azithromycin) are effective in treating COVID.  In the limited info I have read I believe it's unlikely to be effective...

You may know that I teach and write on Performance Metrics, and get really frustrated when I see someone use them badly.  Here's an example from an article in The Japan Times about the Boeing 787 MAX: "...the FAA completed a risk analysis that found that the...

The need for quality professionals is likely to be less as Industry 4.0 comes more fully to fruition.  The digitalization of everything should significantly reduce the opportunities for errors. One thing that will increase is the need for information security ... at...

An analysis of Industry 4.0 reveals that a lot of work, both physical and cognitive, formerly done by humans will be digitized.  This means the operations aspect of those processes will be more reliable, but only if the design of the digital systems is very good....

Good risk management involves monitoring leading indicators (known as KRIs, or Key Risk Indicators) that allow an organization to see that something has changed, which means the ability to respond quicker.  Obviously someone was asleep at the wheel in many places,...