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Badly fitting risk – lessons from impact investment

Risk spelled out in Scrabble tiles.
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When buying off-the-shelf guff policies leads to poor risk management: what to look out for and what to avoid.

A founder of a scaling circular economy business shared their “policy framework” for managing risk with my client, an impact investor. As I waded through hundreds of pages – including a particularly wordy HR manual – I started to spot a familiar pattern. Slop. I know what you’re now thinking,

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