So how do you make Risk interesting?  How do keep an audience awake for three hours plus on Compliance, Operational Risk and the importance of Information Security?  It’s not easy, but we have just returned from Geneva where we ran a programme, part of which needed to drill home the relevance and importance of risk.  During the programme design stage we came up with some analogies for ‘COMMAND and CONTROL’, delegated authority, reporting up and down lines, etc.  Leaders talk a good game on these topics, but the control through fear model continues to be a default trait of too many.  One the team found the following to illustrate the point.  You can be the biggest, most powerful badass in the Universe; but if the staff don’t know who you are, or what you stand for, or what the organisations’ goals are; your chances of having real control over your enterprise are doomed.  Here Darth Vader tries to exercise authority over a member of the canteen staff, with no success whatsoever.  If you’ve seen it before, enjoy again.  If not, Lego and Eddie Izzard create the funniest clip ever posted on Youtube.

Do you know who I am?