Soggy Cornflakes, AI Bilge and Serious Fraud
August's tour through corporate nonsense, prompts-for-cash, organised criminal fraud, and a framework for making referrals, fairly.
The Integrity Gap
Behavioural insights on investment integrity, governance, and risk — plain-spoken lessons from 80+ countries and two decades in the grey zone.
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The pool fart lesson in investigations
A stomach-churning allegation during a swimming lesson for primary-schoolers serves up some lessons about truth-seeking in contexts where it's one person's word against another.
Should I get a cut for introducing you?
Referrals, networks, net worths, and when is a favour more than a favour - lessons from investors, connectors, and trial-and-error.
Reading the room - a defence against AI replacement?
What a chucked-into-Copilot risk assessment gets wrong, and why the fix isn't just about a better AI model
Comments, Crunches and Corporate D!ckheads
July’s tour through industrial turmoil, collaborative dysfunction and the search for a defensible corporate d!ckhead test.
Why don't leaders want to save money?
Because we've not done the maths for them
Who to cultivate and who to weed out?
A rant about mortgages, local resilience, and who gets paid when everything gets harder.
The money is the danger
Why the moment a founder gets funded is the moment the real risk starts
Governance In An Age Of Asymmetric Threats
In a world of dynamic threats and uneven enforcement, boards that chase more controls and more data are reinforcing the wrong risks.
What Serial Daters Know That Businesses Don't
85% of fraudsters pass a background check with a clean record, can dating douches help us detect scammers? Plus, tools FINALLY to help SMEs identify and manage fraud, and sinking your board on a sub.
When (not) to trust your gut
The best, and worst, advice, depending on context and insight. So, when should we rely on instincts?