Leadership and management training is very important for people responsible for the well-being and development of others - i.e. all managers. I make an effort to follow some training whenever I can; the latest one reminded me of a story from 15 years ago.
We are all happy with our past companies, our past managers, and never argue with people. We always try to find a common ground while making concessions, and the people we interact and discuss with are never wrong. Oh, and the sun sets in the east (as true as the previous statements).
My journey with Machine Learning and AI started back in 2017; my first article about AI in this blog was in 2019. And I believe that Governance is of utmost importance in many things, AI being one of them.
Once upon a time I spent a total of 4 hours (over three days) in meetings, stating that I will definitely not approve a security exception. At least, not until someone demonstrates that the exception requested, removes the root cause or is a valid workaround.
Some years ago, during a (quite extended) phishing avalanche in the company I was at the time, the (then) CIO said: Let's fire every user that falls for a phishing mail! That will solve the problem for good. I considered it a joke, and I replied pretty much with a rhyme: Let's train them before we blame them and I didn't give it a second throught. We went on to deploy some training modules, but never really implemented the technical controls on the mail server; an activity that if had been implemented, several of those phishing mails would never have entered the company. I think that this is not strictly a user failure and I'm inclined to blame the IT deparment more than the user.
Last Thursday I took my CRISC exams and - the restless person I am - I had already arranged to take sailing classes over the weekend. I always wanted to take sailing classes, and I had gone sailing once several years ago when I was still living in Greece. My idea was that when I grow old I will buy a small sailing boat and sail around my beloved Crete.