ICT Insight with Institute of ICT Professionals: The human factor in cybersecurity

“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” — Jack Welch

Stories. They are all around us. We learn them. We tell them. We hear them. At home. In school. In church. In the public transport. We are so immersed in stories that like the fish not being aware it is wet, we tend to forget that we live in a world of tales, fables, narratives and yarns.

The day a worker causes harm to a third party in the course of doing the employer’s bidding is the day the human resource function discovers that its legal exposure extends far beyond payroll, leave schedules, and disciplinary correspondence

Ask an older Ghanaian for directions and you may get a small story. “When you pass the big mango tree, branch left.

Some time in the next few months an email will arrive in your organisation with IFRS S1 and S2 in the subject line. It will be forwarded once or twice and come to rest with whoever has capacity.

It has been almost two decades since I joined the corporate world. One lesson that has stayed with me is that institutions thrive when they uphold their founding values, learn from past experiences and adapt to changing circumstances.

Picture a room of decision-makers. Someone turns to you and asks, "So, what do you do?" The answer you give in that moment will shape how the next hour goes, and often how the next opportunity is allocated.

The illusion of sovereignty is perhaps most visible in the soaring concrete of our national monuments.