Risktory: The Story Of Risk

Coming up on this week’s episode, an episode inspired by John Greaves, July’s Risktorian of the Month (link below to that episode). Next week, I will be exploring Operation Pastorious. Operation Pastorious was a Nazi plot to attack American economic targets – including critical infrastructure - during World War 2, as a means of disrupting and, ultimately, destroying the American war effort.This is a cracking tale from the past that exemplifies a concept that, Christian Hunt, the May Risktorian of the Month (link below to that episode), calls human risk. The German plan was solid with multiple layers of defense that had been carefully curated to succeed even when compromised. The one variable the Germans had not countenanced, or planned for, was the behavior of humans. Not factoring human behavior into their planning proved to be an achilles heel.This week’s episode will explore the idea that you can have the best risk processes, structures and systems in place, but if you ignore the behavior of humans wh