Articles on risk/uncertainty management as a personal skill

• The basics

• How to talk openly about uncertainty at work

• How to be convincing when you are uncertain

• Understanding uncertainty in interpersonal encounters

• Straight and crooked thinking about uncertainty

• Why uncertainty causes stress, and how to stop it

• Motivation and uncertainty

Articles on corporate processes and regulations

• A simple introduction to risk management and internal control in organisations

• Designing internal control systems

• How to run a risk management meeting

• How to interview someone about risks and controls

• The easiest and best matrices for documenting internal controls

• Risk management history and regulations (UK)

Other food for thought

• Will-power and uncertainty

• What Jurassic Park tells us about uncertainty suppression

Welcome

Managed Luck is a collection of articles about dealing with uncertainty.

It is written for anyone with an interest in management skills, personal effectiveness, or management systems.

In particular, anyone responsible for promoting risk management, uncertainty management, Beyond Budgeting, or internal control within their organisation should find much of use here.

All the articles are free to read on this website, but are also available "unbranded" and with reasonable modifications if need be, for use on your intranet. Drawing on the materials in Managed Luck is a way to build or extend a lively intranet site promoting your programme, quickly and at reasonable cost.

I believe that promoting an attitude of open mindedness about the future and the skills to deal with it is important. This is where the main benefits of risk management programmes and the like come from and in most organisations there is huge scope for beneficial change.

A recent addition is an article called "Will-power and uncertainty" that looks at how unpredictable events tend to erode our good intentions, and what to do about it.

Why "Managed Luck"?

The author (picture, CV)