Management thinking

By Fiona Czerniawska.

Go to the top of Dubai’s Burj Khalifa and you can see not only the ornate, blue swirls of the marina below, but also miles across the desert to the point where the dust and the desert blur. Look at it from the bottom, and it’s hard to imagine that it’s possible to build something even higher than its fragile, filigree pinnacle.

By Fiona Czerniawska.

“The difference between cybersecurity and other types of risk is that, with cyber, we have to assume we’re being attacked right now, we just haven’t realised it.” That’s how a client we recently interviewed summed up his organisation’s attitude—and he’s not alone: other forms of risk (regulatory, reputational, operational) may be possible, but cyber attacks are a reality.

By Fiona Czerniawska.

*At Source, we’re used to hearing the phrase, “a war for talent”, but recent interviewees have talked about “the war on talent”.  We report back from the frontline.

[THE SCENE: 1917. A PATCHY MIST ROLLS ACROSS A MUDDY FIELD, POCKMARKED WITH SHELL HOLES AND STUDDED WITH THE STUMPS OF DEAD TREES. IN A TRENCH, TWO MEN COWER, WHILE A THIRD TRAINS HIS BINOCULARS ON THE RIDGE AHEAD OF THEM.]

Captain: [REMINISCING] …  the jolly old days when you’d be positively tripping over decent people.  Recruitment was like shooting fish in a barrel…

Corporal: [SHOUTING] Sir! Business analysts coming over the top!!