Overview
I've sat in operating reviews, hiring debates, and board updates for twenty years - at a bank, abroadcaster, a games company, and two fast-scaling tech firms. Same script every time.
A decision lands on the table. It carries real risk, but it is framed as routine, so nobody treats it as a risk. Twopeople in the room have a doubt. Neither says it out loud, because disagreeing with the group costs more thanbeing quietly wrong with it. The decision passes. Six months later everyone agrees it was obvious, and no oneremembers staying silent. The loss gets filed under bad luck.
It was never bad luck. It was Human Risk - the plain fact that people inside and outside a company make poordecisions, and that those decisions do far more damage than the fire or flood the company actually insuresagainst. It is the most expensive risk most companies own, and the one almost nobody on the HR team isasked to manage.
What works:
- Human Risk - name it as a tracked category and it stops hiding inside ordinary work
- ISO 31000 for people - the bank's risk standard, pointed at decisions instead of property
- Personal Connection Maps - surface the relationships that quietly bend a call
- Real escalation routes - that work without depending on one brave person
What doesn't:
- Assuming smart people don't make dumb calls
- Measuring engagement to two decimals while the decisions go unwatched
- Treating culture as a poster instead of a risk multiplier
The system in this book is what I've seen work, built for the HRBP with no risk department and no sparebudget. 57 templates inside - registers, scorecards, charters, checklists - every one printed on the page. Nodownloads, no email walls, no dead links.
Academic HR-risk and compliance manuals run $50 to $100 and read like reference texts; an HR-riskconsultant costs far more for a single day. This is the working version, for the price of a paperback.
Read it once. Then watch your next operating review go differently.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798181558519
- ISBN-10: 9798181558519
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: June 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.65 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.85 pounds
- Page Count: 288
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