Tag: risk management

I worked with a private equity group a few years ago that had purchased a founder-led company that was churning along nicely. However, a short while after the investment closed, they discovered that the one marketing database they relied upon to generate revenue was being used without the required approval. Their sole revenue generation technique […]

I’ve previously written about the value of “optimizing” conflict in an organization rather than naively trying to minimize it. (Here is the link if you are interested.) Conflict and risk both have bad raps, but eliminating either would be a disaster! The historical bank runs (e.g., Silicon Valley Bank in 2023) and the resulting “bail […]