Tautegory Press has released Risk Reconsidered, a collection of 20
articles by Annie Searle, first published in The Risk Universe magazine
between 2012 and 2017, refreshed with head notes on each. Topics in those articles range from the 2008
financial sector crisis to 9-11, vendor risk, conduct risk, reputational risk,
and operational risks from ISIS or Ebola. The book's addendum adds ten columns
that the author wrote for ASA News & Notes since late 2017, most of
which focus on governance, conduct and risk in the Trump administration,
including the widely reprinted “Can You Spell Kakistocracy?”
Annie Searle is a full time faculty lecturer on operational risk as well as on information ethics, policy and law at the University of Washington’s Information School, and is the faculty adviser for the University of Washington's ISACA chapter. She is principal of Annie Searle & Associates LLC (ASA Risk Consultants), a research and advisory firm providing services to firms that are part of the nation’s critical infrastructure. Searle is the author of the popular book Advice From A Risk Detective.
Her ASA Institute for Research and Innovation has published four volumes of research notes on operational risk events and issues in a series called Reflections on Risk. Searle authored the second chapter -- “How Does Conduct Risk Manifest and What Are Its Root Causes?” -- of Conduct Risk: A Practitioner’s Guide, edited by Peter Haines and published by Risk Books of London in 2016. She was inducted into the Hall of Fame for the International Network of Women in Emergency Management and Homeland Security in 2011; and is a lifetime member of the Institute of American Entrepreneurs. Prior to founding ASA in 2009, Searle spent ten years at Washington Mutual Bank as a divisional executive.
Annie Searle is a full time faculty lecturer on operational risk as well as on information ethics, policy and law at the University of Washington’s Information School, and is the faculty adviser for the University of Washington's ISACA chapter. She is principal of Annie Searle & Associates LLC (ASA Risk Consultants), a research and advisory firm providing services to firms that are part of the nation’s critical infrastructure. Searle is the author of the popular book Advice From A Risk Detective.
Her ASA Institute for Research and Innovation has published four volumes of research notes on operational risk events and issues in a series called Reflections on Risk. Searle authored the second chapter -- “How Does Conduct Risk Manifest and What Are Its Root Causes?” -- of Conduct Risk: A Practitioner’s Guide, edited by Peter Haines and published by Risk Books of London in 2016. She was inducted into the Hall of Fame for the International Network of Women in Emergency Management and Homeland Security in 2011; and is a lifetime member of the Institute of American Entrepreneurs. Prior to founding ASA in 2009, Searle spent ten years at Washington Mutual Bank as a divisional executive.
From the book’s reviewers:
“Annie’s contribution over the 5 ½ years we published The
Risk Universe exactly met our vision….The quality of Annie’s articles
contained in this book speak for themselves, augmented by more recent material
proving that she is a master of that core construct of operational risk: people
(or conduct) risk. I look forward to continue to read Annie’s thought provoking
articles and blogs for many years to come.”
Mike
Finlay, Publisher, The Risk Universe
“Risk Reconsidered focuses appropriately
on governance, ethics and insider risks, as well as other critical risks. The
writings are particularly relevant, given the current administration and
business and economic times….Annie is not only a well-respected risk professional,
but an exceptional writer.”
Catherine Allen, Chairman and CEO,
The Santa Fe Group
” Vibrant, even exciting,
observations of how bankers lost the balance and ballast of common ethical
standards, and how society, and the banks and bank stakeholders -- but only
rarely the bankers -- suffered from the loss. She is equally effective
when she broadens her vision to encompass other industries and disasters like
9-11. Searle's pragmatic knowledge of both principles and anecdotes is
distilled into educational and managerial wisdom. ”
Howard
Stein, Former Head of Operational Risk, The Corporate & Investment Bank, Citibank
and Citigroup International
"Annie
Searle’s Risk Reconsidered is an insightful, profound, far reaching, but
easily digested collection of essays that tackles the challenges of many of the
last two decades’ worth of international and domestic crises. Refreshingly accessible, but not dumb-downed,
the essays offer lessons for all of us with significant responsibilities within
complex systems. Searle’s vast experience in risk assessment and management,
alongside substantial teaching experience, provides readers with a rewarding
read.”
Sara Curran, Director, University of Washington Center for
Studies in Demography & Ecology, and Professor of International
Studies, The Jackson School
“Operational risks permeate institutions of every
sort – business, governmental, educational, nonprofits. Annie Searle combines
her extensive experience in banking, technology, public affairs, and education
with Basel’s four risk lenses – people, process, systems, and external events –
to provide cogent commentary on cutting edge operational risk issues. The
articles in Risk Reconsidered, with
the addition of headnotes, are as timely for today’s world as they were when
originally written.
William Longbrake, Executive in
Residence, , Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of
Maryland
The volume is available from Amazon
for $14.95.
