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The Sentinel CEO: Perspectives on Security, Risk, and Leadership in a Post-9/11 World
A forward-thinking approach to addressing corporate security challenges after 9/11 The Sentinel CEO takes a proactive look-from the perspective of top executives-at the ways business has changed since 9/11. Filled with in-depth interviews with America's leading CEOs, security experts, public officials, and academics, this essential tool underscores how a business's core values can help it address and recover from unforeseen threats. A revealing examination of the subtle and profound ways in which American business has changed, The Sentinel CEO explores a variety of risks facing businesses of all sizes that operate in a global environment. This important book includes timely discussion of growing anti-American sentiments worldwide, the avian flu, and the impact of tougher immigration enforcement on the talent pool in the United States.
208 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2007
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March 24, 2016
Parrett, a former Deloitte global CEO, shares his reflections and the results of interviews with CEOs of leading American companies.
Parrett discusses four priorities in developing a holistic approach to risk management:
1. identify and manage critical interdependent risks
2. leadership needs to create a culture that emphasizes the importance of ethical behaviour, compliance, quality and broader risk management. Parrett's warning that "Unless a company has built an ethical corporate culture and effective controls, aggressive strategies to generate profits or slash costs can motivate employees to engage in fraudulent and inappropriate business activities" is timely today.
3. ensuring you look at low-frequency, high-impact risks - Taleb's Black Swans (something that would have helped organisations before the GFC) - and, importantly, enhance an organisation's capacity to respond
4. having the right internal information and communication systems and processes.
An easy to read book with some important reminders.
Parrett discusses four priorities in developing a holistic approach to risk management:
1. identify and manage critical interdependent risks
2. leadership needs to create a culture that emphasizes the importance of ethical behaviour, compliance, quality and broader risk management. Parrett's warning that "Unless a company has built an ethical corporate culture and effective controls, aggressive strategies to generate profits or slash costs can motivate employees to engage in fraudulent and inappropriate business activities" is timely today.
3. ensuring you look at low-frequency, high-impact risks - Taleb's Black Swans (something that would have helped organisations before the GFC) - and, importantly, enhance an organisation's capacity to respond
4. having the right internal information and communication systems and processes.
An easy to read book with some important reminders.
February 17, 2018
The book that every CSO should send to his CEO for Christmas. Make cogent business arguments for why security matters in the corporate world. Best explanation of "reputational ROI" that I've read. Should be on the bookshelf of every security operations manager.
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