Changing culture

In the second of a series, Eric Holmquist considers some specific goals in trying to establish a risk culture

Here's a bit of a trick question for you. When evaluated from a risk perspective, is a hyper-competitive culture inherently bad? How about a decidedly arrogant one? How about a culture that is myopically profit-centred, almost to the exclusion of all else? Our natural inclination would be to answer that yes, these are if not bad, then at least dangerous to a sound risk culture. However, that would be a precarious position to take for this reason. Culture simply cannot be summed up in one or two

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