Writing

Essays

On oversight, measurement, and why organisations are reliably surprised by things somebody inside them already knew.

• 10 August 2026

  Why the P&L Works and the Risk Report Doesn't

  The same board, on the same morning, receives two kinds of information about the organisation it governs. One of them changes decisions. The other never has.

• 15 June 2026

  Why the Board Is Always the Last to Know

  There is a meeting that happens after every serious cyber incident, and it is always the same meeting.