10 June 2025
This past week, Taupล District Council held a โRisk Appetiteโ workshop. I did not attend.
Not because I donโt value risk managementโquite the opposite. But I value my time too much to sit through what looked like a governance theatre of perception, and not the real thing.
The session wasnโt recorded, so there was no audio or minutes or public visibilityโjust private talk about public risk, minus the public accountability.
And yet, one of the stated pillars of a healthy risk management culture? โ๐ง๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ป ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ด๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ป๐ฎ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒโ.
Thatโs one thing this Council has yet to grasp, as I hope some of you will recognise from my past posts.
So I declined to attend, to lend any sort of silent legitimacy to a closed-door performance costumed in the language of integrity. That would just be propaganda, wouldnโt it?
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