CASE IN POINT: LESSONS FOR THE PROACTIVE MANAGER

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Volume 16 -- 2024

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

-- Unknown

Case In Point - Vol. 16 No. 02

Life is divided into three terms -- that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

-- William Wordsworth

Case In Point - Vol. 16 No. 01

Volume 15 -- 2023

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning

-- Benjamin Franklin

Case In Point - Vol. 15 No. 12

In the algorithmic dance of progress, let ethics lead the choreography, for in the rhythm of artificial intelligence, the heartbeat of humanity must set the tempo.

-- Generated by ChatGPT

Case In Point - Vol. 15 No. 11

You are an essential ingredient in our ongoing effort to reduce Security Risk.

-- Kirsten Manthorne

Case In Point - Vol. 15 No. 10

Life is one big road with lots of signs

-- Box Marley

Case In Point - Vol. 15 No. 09

I believe that everyone chooses how to approach life. If you're proactive, you focus on preparing. If you're reactive, you end up focusing on repairing.

-- John C. Maxwell

Case In Point - Vol. 15 No. 08

It's not always - or not only - the initial mistake that brings down a leader. It's the response, or lack thereof.

-- from the Chronicle of Higher Education's Daily Brief 7/20/2023

Case In Point - Vol. 15 No. 07

New technology is not good or evil in and of itself. It's all about how people choose to use it.

-- David Wong

Case In Point - Vol. 15 No. 06

You can have all the right strategies in the world; if you don't have the right culture, you're dead.

-- Patrick Whitesell

Case In Point - Vol. 15 No. 05

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

-- Calvin Coolidge

Case In Point - Vol. 15 No. 04

Ethics are more important than laws.

-- Wynton Marsalis

Case In Point - Vol. 15 No. 03

If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.

-- William H. McRaven

Case In Point - Vol. 15 No. 02

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

-- Confucius

Case In Point - Vol. 15 No. 01

Volume 14 -- 2022

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

-- John C. Maxwell

Case In Point - Vol. 14 No. 12

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

-- Stephen Covey

Case In Point - Vol. 14 No. 11

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

-- James J. Corbett

Case In Point - Vol. 14 No. 10

A wise man learns from his mistakes, a wiser man learns from others' mistakes, the wisest man learns from others' successes.

-- Anonymous

Case In Point - Vol. 14 No. 09

It's a dangerous world, man. You've gotta keep your eyes and ears peeled and be on the alert all the time.

-- Vinnie Paul

Case In Point - Vol. 14 No. 08

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard

-- Nicholas Sparks

Case In Point - Vol. 14 No. 07

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

-- Bertolt Brecht

Case In Point - Vol. 14 No. 06

Collegiality among colleagues is the ideal, but it is not a legal requirement.

-- Anonymous

Case In Point - Vol. 14 No. 05

It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie.

-- Simon Sinek

Case In Point - Vol. 14 No. 04

Doing the right thing is never the wrong thing.

-- Ted Lasso

Case In Point - Vol. 14 No. 03

Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.

-- Zig Ziglar

Case In Point - Vol. 14 No. 02

Every problem is a gift -- without problems we would not grow.

-- Anthony Robbins

Case In Point - Vol. 14 No. 01

Volume 13 -- 2021

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

-- Anais Nin

Case In Point - Vol. 13 No. 12

There's always a sense that people will do things quite differently if they think they have privacy.


-- Peter Thiel

Case In Point - Vol. 13 No. 11

A free mind makes its own choices, an enslaved mind follows the crowd.

-- Floyd Mayweather

Case In Point - Vol. 13 No. 10

You have to think a little harder, be proactive, not reactive.

-- Frank Abagnale

Case In Point - Vol. 13 No. 09

Lessons in life will be repeated until they are learned.

-- Frank Sonnenberg

Case In Point - Vol. 13 No. 08

Integrity is choosing your thoughts and actions based on values rather than personal gain.

-- Chris Karcher

Case In Point - Vol. 13 No. 07

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

--Warren G. Harding

Case In Point - Vol. 13 No. 06

Communicate unto the other person that which you would want him to communicate unto you if your positions were reversed.

-- Aaron Goldman

Case In Point - Vol. 13 No. 05

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

-- John Wayne

Case In Point - Vol. 13 No. 04

Fraud really thrives in moments of great social change and transition.

-- Maria Konnikova

Case In Point - Vol. 13 No. 03

If you put a key under the mat for the cops, a burglar can find it, too. Criminals are using every technology tool at their disposal to hack into people's accounts. If they know there's a key hidden somewhere, they won't stop until they find it.

-- Tim Cook

Case In Point - Vol. 13 No. 02

A sensible man watches for problems ahead and prepares to meet them. The simpleton never looks and suffers the consequences.

-- Proverbs 27:12

Case In Point - Vol. 13 No. 01

Volume 12 -- 2020

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.

Orison Swett Marden

Case In Point - Vol. 12 No. 12

The mistakes of the past are valuable lessons for the future.

-- Lailah Gifty Akita

Case In Point - Vol. 12 No. 11

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

--Edmund Burke

Case In Point - Vol. 12 No. 10

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

--Albert Einstein

Case In Point - Vol. 12 No. 09

True prevention is not waiting for bad things to happen, it's preventing things from happening in the first place.

--Don McPherson

Case In Point - Vol. 12 No. 08

There are more things ... likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality

--Seneca

Case In Point - Vol. 12 No. 07

It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong.

--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Case In Point - Vol. 12 No. 06

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

--Stephen Covey

Case In Point - Vol. 12 No. 05

Inside every problem are hidden opportunities

--John C. Maxwell

Case In Point - Vol. 12 No. 04

Not everything that gets your attention deserves your attention. Let that resonate for a minute.

--Jimmy Dykes from the book: The Film Doesn't Lie: Evaluating Your Life one Play at a Time

Case In Point - Vol. 12 No. 03

History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.

--Quavo

Case In Point - Vol. 12 No. 02

For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security.

-- Larry Page

Case In Point - Vol. 12 No. 01

Volume 11 -- 2019

Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin', into the future.

-- Steve Miller

Case In Point - Vol. 11 No. 12

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest

-- Confucius

Case In Point - Vol. 11 No. 11

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

--Oprah Winfrey

Case In Point - Vol. 11 No. 10

Collaboration is a key part of the success of any organization, executed through a clearly defined vision and mission and based on transparency and constant communication.

--Dinesh Paliwal

Case In Point - Vol. 11 No. 09

Fraud rarely occurs when strong controls and oversight are in place.

Case In Point - Vol. 11 No. 08

Robinson's Theory of Fraud Opportunity: a person with complete control of a process, and who fully understands the system for which they have complete control, is a danger to the organization from an occupational fraud standpoint. This risk is increased exponentially when you have complete trust in this employee.

Kevin Robinson

Case In Point - Vol. 11 No. 07

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

Alan Alda

Case In Point - Vol. 11 No. 06

Ethical decisions ensure that everyone's best interests are protected.

Harvey MacKay

Case In Point - Vol. 11 No. 05

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

--Jocko Willink

Case In Point - Vol. 11 No. 04

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

--Roy H. Williams

Case In Point - Vol. 11 No. 03

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

-- An Wang

Case In Point - Vol. 11 No. 02

The wise man looks ahead. The fool attempts to fool himself and won’t face facts.

-- a Proverb of Solomon

Case In Point - Vol. 11 No. 01

Volume 10 -- 2018

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

-- John Locke

Case In Point - Vol. 10 No. 12

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.

-- J.C. Watts

Case In Point - Vol. 10 No. 11

Success is a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

-- Jim Rohn

Case In Point - Vol. 10 No. 10

Transparency is your friend in conflict of interest situations.

-- Kevin Robinson

Case In Point - Vol. 10 No. 9

We believe that transparency creates trust.

-- Julie Sweet, CEO of Accenture, North America

Case In Point - Vol. 10 No. 8

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

-- Potter Stewart

Case In Point - Vol. 10 No. 7

Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.

-- Billy Graham

Case In Point - Vol. 10 No. 6

It takes a career, a lifetime, to build up a reputation, and only one misstep for it all to crumble away.

-- Aaron Rodgers

Case In Point - Vol. 10 No. 5

Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times.

-- John Gerzema

Case In Point - Vol. 10 No. 3

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

-- Steve Jobs

Case In Point - Vol. 10 No. 2

Wise men say, and not without reason, that whoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.

-- Niccolò Machiavelli

Case In Point - Vol. 10 No. 1

Volume 9 -- 2017

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

--J. Pierpont Morgan

Case In Point - Vol. 9 No. 12

Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

--Carl Sandburg

Case In Point - Vol. 9 No. 11

There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death.

--Proverbs 14:12

Case In Point - Vol. 9 No. 10

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

--John Wooden

Case In Point - Vol. 9 No. 9

A fool thinks he needs no advice, but a wise man listens to others.

-- A Proverb of Solomon

Case In Point - Vol. 9 No. 8

Be proactive not reactive, for an apparently insignificant issue ignored today can spawn tomorrow's catastrophe.

-- Ken Poirot

Case In Point - Vol. 9 No. 7

If you see something, say something

-- Homeland Security

Case In Point - Vol. 9 No. 6

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters

-- Albert Einstein

Case In Point - Vol. 9 No. 5

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

-- H.L. Mencken

Case In Point - Vol. 9 No. 4

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting

-- Edmund Burke

Case In Point - Vol. 9 No. 2

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

-- David Brin

Case In Point - Vol. 9 No. 1

Volume 8 -- 2016

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.

-- Margaret J. Wheatley

Case In Point - Vol. 8 No. 12

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

-- Douglas Adams

Case In Point - Vol. 8 No. 11

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

-- Stephen Covey

Case In Point - Vol. 8 No. 10

People always make the best exploits. I've never found it hard to hack most people. If you listen to them, watch them, their vulnerabilities are like a neon sign screwed into their heads.

-- Elliot Anderson (Rami Malek) in Mr. Robot

Case In Point - Vol. 8 No. 9

Things will absolutely go wrong. In a healthy team, as soon as things go wrong, that information should be surfaced. Trying to hide or obscure bad news creates an environment of distrust or lack of transparency.

-- Steven Sinofsky

Case In Point - Vol. 8 No. 8

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

-- John F. Kennedy

Case In Point - Vol. 8 No. 7

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

-- Benjamin Franklin

Case In Point - Vol. 8 No. 6

Ultimately, what happened at Baylor is about a culture where too much power is given to one person.

-- Tony Barnhart

Case In Point - Vol. 8 No. 5

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

-- Abraham Lincoln

Case In Point - Vol. 8 No. 4

Transparency, honesty, kindness, good stewardship, even humor, work in businesses at all times

-- John Gerzema

Case In Point - Vol. 8 No. 3

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

-- James Thurber

Case In Point - Vol. 8 No. 2

Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.

-- Augustine of Hippo

Case In Point - Vol. 8 No. 1

Volume 7 -- 2015

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.

-- Margaret J. Wheatley

Case In Point - Vol. 7 No. 12

Our research has shown that strong relationships, careers, organizations, and communities all draw from the same source of power --- the ability to talk openly about high-stakes, emotional, controversial topics.

-- Patterson, Grenny, McMillan, and Switzler

Case In Point - Vol. 7 No. 11

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning

-- Benjamin Franklin

Case In Point - Vol. 7 No. 10

If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.

-- Bruce Schneier

Case In Point - Vol. 7 No. 9

I believe that everyone chooses how to approach life. If you're proactive, you focus on preparing. If you're reactive, you end up focusing on repairing.

-- John C. Maxwell

Case In Point - Vol. 7 No. 8


I believe in obedience to law because it protects the rights of all.

-- Dr. George Petrie from The Auburn Creed

Case In Point - Vol. 7 No. 7

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

-- Warren Buffett

Case In Point - Vol. 7 No. 6

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

-- General Colin Powell

Case In Point - Vol. 7 No. 5

The time is always right to do the right thing.

-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Case In Point - Vol. 7 No. 4

Security is always excessive until it's not enough.

-- Robbie Sinclair

Case In Point - Vol. 7 No. 3

Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.

-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

Case In Point - Vol. 7 No. 2

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

-- Ecclesiastes 1:9

Case In Point - Vol. 7 No. 1

Volume 6 -- 2014

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

-- Nelson Mandela

Case In Point - Vol. 6 No. 12

It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.

-- Joey Skaggs

Case In Point - Vol. 6 No. 10

In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.

-- Theodore Roosevelt

Case In Point - Vol. 6 No. 9

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Case In Point - Vol. 6 No. 8

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

-- Jane Addams

Case In Point - Vol. 6 No. 7

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

-- Jack Welch

Case In Point - Vol. 6 No. 6

Awareness without action is worthless.

-- Phil McGraw

Case In Point - Vol. 6 No. 5

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.

-- Theodore Roosevelt

Case In Point - Vol. 6 No. 4

A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.

-- Unknown

Case In Point - Vol. 6 No. 3

There are risks and costs to a program of action - but they are far less than the long range cost of comfortable inaction.

-- John F. Kennedy

Case In Point - Vol. 6 No. 2

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

-- Mitch Ratliff

Case In Point - Vol. 6 No. 1

Volume 5 - 2013

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

-- St. Francis of Assisi

Case In Point - Vol. 5 No. 12

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

-- Henry Ford

Case In Point - Vol. 5 No. 11

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

-- Albert Einstein

Case In Point - Vol. 5 No. 10

He is most free from danger, who, even when safe, is on his guard.

-- Publillus Syrus

Case In Point - Vol. 5 No. 9

A naïve man believes everything, but a wise man looks well into the matter.

-- Proverbs

Case In Point - Vol. 5 No. 8

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

-- Benjamin Franklin

Case In Point - Vol. 5 No. 7

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

-- Ecclesiastes 1:9 (NIV)

Case In Point - Vol. 5 No. 6

Action is the foundational key to all success.

-- Pablo Picasso

Case In Point - Vol. 5 No. 5

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

-- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Case In Point - Vol. 5 No. 4

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

-- Leonard Nimoy

Case In Point - Vol. 5 No. 3

It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

-- Lawrence Peter ''Yogi'' Berra

Case In Point - Vol. 5 No. 2

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

-- Theodore Roosevelt

Case In Point - Vol. 5 No. 1

Volume 4 -- 2012

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

-- Denis Waitley

Case In Point - Vol. 4 No. 12

This was not a mistake, an oversight, or a misjudgment. This was a conspiracy of silence by top officials.

-- Linda Kelly Pennsylvania Attorney General

Case In Point - Vol. 4 No. 11

All of us are watchers - of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway - but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.

-- Peter M. Leschak

Case In Point - Vol. 4 No. 10

Passwords are like underwear … change yours often …. don't share them with friends … don't leave yours lying around …

-- Virginia E. Rezmierski EDUCOM '98

Case In Point - Vol. 4 No. 9

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.

-- Richard Bach

Case In Point - Vol. 4 No. 8

If that is the culture at the bottom, God help the culture at the top

-- Former FBI Director Louis Freeh discussing the Penn State situation where employees feared reporting criminal activity

Case In Point - Vol. 4 No. 7

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

-- Harper Lee

Case In Point - Vol. 4 No. 6

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

-- John Quincy Adams

Case In Point - Vol. 4 No. 5

Contemplating any business act, an employee should ask whether he/she would be willing to see it immediately described by an informed and critical reporter on the front page of the local paper, there to be read by his/her spouse, children, and friends.

-- Warren E. Buffet

Case In Point - Vol. 4 No. 4


We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet.

-- Unknown

Case In Point - Vol. 4 No. 3

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own

-- Aesop

Case In Point - Vol. 4 No. 2

Part of being a leader at that level is to be a risk manager and to think through what might happen

-- Penn State Trustee Chair Karen B. Peetz

Case In Point - Vol. 4 No. 1

Volume 3 -- 2011

I don't expect anyone to be perfect. It's not human nature. What I do expect is that they will take risks, correct mistakes, and learn from both.

-- Mike Armstrong, Former CEO AT&T

Case In Point - Vol. 3 No. 12

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

--Josiah Gilbert Holland 1819-1881, American Author

Case In Point - Vol. 3 No. 11

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

-- Arnold Glascow

Case In Point - Vol. 3 No. 10

"Gee, there is something wrong with just about everything, isn't there, Dad?" - "Beaver" (Theodore Cleaver) "Just about, Beav!" - Dad (Ward Cleaver)

-- "Leave It To Beaver," television series 1957-1963

Case In Point - Vol. 3 No. 9

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

-- Ecclesiastes 1:9

Case In Point - Vol. 3 No. 8

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know."

-- Aldous Huxley

Case In Point - Vol. 3 No. 7

To know what is right and to not do it is the worst cowardice.

-- Confucius

Case In Point - Vol. 3 No. 6

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.."

-- Confucius

Case In Point - Vol. 3 No. 5

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."

-- Douglas Adams

Case In Point - Vol. 3 No. 4

The corporate culture is the most powerful control in any organization.

--James (Jim) Roth, PhD, author of Best Practices: Evaluating the Corporate Culture

Case In Point - Vol. 3 No. 3

You can observe a lot just by watching.

-- Lawrence Peter ''Yogi'' Berra

Case In Point - Vol. 3 No. 2

Communication is the real work of leadership.

-- Nitin Nohria

Case In Point - Vol. 3 No. 1

Volume 2 -- 2010

Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

-- Unknown

Case In Point - Vol. 2 No. 12

The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either.

-- Mark Twain

Case In Point - Vol. 2 No. 11

Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge.

-- Benjamin Franklin

Case In Point - Vol. 2 No. 10

Fundamentally, security is about people, not technology.

-- Dr. Greg Newby

Case In Point - Vol. 2 No. 9

If you do not manage culture, it manages you, and you may not even be aware of the extent to which this is happening.

-- Unknown

Case In Point - Vol. 2 No. 8

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

-- Benjamin Franklin

Case In Point - Vol. 2 No. 7

Are you astonished Aulus, that our friend Fabullinus is so frequently deceived? A good man has always something to learn in regard to fraud.

-- Marcus Aurelius quotes (Roman emperor, best known for his Meditations on Stoic philosophy, AD 121-180

Case In Point - Vol. 2 No. 6

Don't get yourself in certain circumstances or instances, because it's not a good feeling to be sitting in that chair where you've got 12 people that are in control of your life. You have an opportunity to be in control of your life for yourself by the decisions that you make.

-- Puff Daddy

Case In Point - Vol. 2 No. 5

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.

-- Albert Einstein

Case In Point - Vol. 2 No. 4

Security is always excessive until it's not enough.

-- Robbie Sinclair, Head of Security, Country Energy, NSW Australia

Case In Point - Vol. 2 No. 3

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

-- Thomas Paine

Case In Point - Vol. 2 No. 2

We took risks. We knew we took them. Things have come out against us. We have no cause for complaint.

-- Robert Frost

Case In Point - Vol. 2 No. 1

Volume 1 - 2009

Every manager is a risk manager.

-- Kevin Robinson

Case In Point - Vol. 1 No. 12

Complacency is not something we have the luxury of.

-- Jacob Nolan, Texas A&M student

Case In Point - Vol. 1 No. 11

People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.

-- Bruce Schneier

Case In Point - Vol. 1 No. 10

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics

-- Albert Einstein

 Case In Point - Vol. 1 No. 9

Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.

-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

 Case In Point - Vol. 1 No. 8

It's very important for universities to be high places of integrity. That's about all we have to go on.

-- Morton Weir former university chancellor and current university board member at Knox College

 Case In Point - Vol. 1 No. 7

The cost of greatness is responsibility.

-- Sir Winston Churchill

 

Case In Point - Vol. 1 No. 6

I reject your reality and substitute my own.

-- Adam Savage MythBusters

 Case In Point - Vol. 1 No. 5

The time is always right to do what is right.

--Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

Case In Point - Vol. 1 No. 4

Every manager is a risk manager.

--Kevin Robinson

Case In Point - Vol. 1 No. 3

Every dollar you lose to fraud or compliance failure is a dollar you've lost to your primary mission of education, research and outreach.

--Kevin Robinson

Case In Point - Vol. 1 No. 2

Contemplating any business act, an employee should ask himself whether he would be willing to see it immediately described by an informed and critical reporter on the front page of his local paper, there to be read by his spouse, children, and friends.

--Warren Buffet

 Case In Point - Vol. 1 No. 1

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Last updated: 02/28/2024