Essays
Long-form essays on resilience, architecture, and executive decision-making under stress.
Recommended Reading
A short, intentional path into the core of this body of work.
Why continuity must now be demonstrated rather than assumed by boards, regulators, and executives.
How market failures exposed fragility and how regulators are codifying resilience worldwide.
Why misaligned incentives quietly undermine resilience and how leaders correct course.
All Essays
A complete index of published essays and research notes.
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Operational Resilience Is Becoming the Global Regulatory Baseline
Read the essay →: Operational Resilience Is Becoming the Global Regulatory BaselineOperational resilience is becoming a global regulatory baseline, shaped by Asia-Pacific as an early accelerator, Europe as a codifier, and the United States as a fragmented but influential…
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Incentives, Behavior, and the Architecture of Change: Why Transformations Fail Without Alignment
Read the essay →: Incentives, Behavior, and the Architecture of Change: Why Transformations Fail Without AlignmentMost transformations fail not because of strategy or tooling, but because incentives undermine resilience. This essay examines how misalignment distorts recovery, response, and performance under stress.
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Evidence of Resilience: How CISOs, CIOs, and CROs Demonstrate Continuity Under Stress
Read the essay →: Evidence of Resilience: How CISOs, CIOs, and CROs Demonstrate Continuity Under StressBoards don’t need more maturity scores. They need evidence. This essay explains how leaders demonstrate continuity, reliability, and resilience when systems and dependencies are under stress.
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Identity as a Control Plane: The Successor to Zero Trust and the Architecture of Continuity
Read the essay →: Identity as a Control Plane: The Successor to Zero Trust and the Architecture of ContinuityIdentity has become the control plane of modern enterprises. This essay explains why identity security now determines trust, resilience, and systemic failure in complex environments.