Category: Professionalism
About professionalism
Many professions have mechanisms to certify practitioners as having recognised levels of competence and standards. Chartered Accountants and Chartered IT Professionals, are examples.
– What does it mean to be professional?
– Can professionalism be achieved with being certified?
– Could there ever be a Certified Espionage Professional?
These are the questions covered by the stories and articles in this category.
St0ries and commentary
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Drumhead Trial – an example, and 6 ways to fight it
“Drumhead Trial”. An intelligence researcher is accused of incompetence when investigative journalists outsmart him. The story shows the danger of being a scapegoat – in almost any job.
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Intelligence sector careers – advice for knowledge-workers
Career advice for 7-18 year olds considering the intelligence sector: police, commercial, defence, security, political, and environmental intelligence.
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An agency man – a story of an ex intelligence officer in industry
Ex intelligence officers face many challenges adjusting to civilian life. This is a 4 page story to illustrate the transition, and the challenge of hiding their background.
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Stop project risk analysis failure – 6 tips from (secret) intelligence estimation
Risk analysis failures in projects have a human impact for those involved, as well as a financial one. 6 tips from secret intelligence analysis.
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Spy catcher rivals – using AI in counter intelligence
Spy catchers (counter-intelligence). An intelligence analyst competes against a researcher armed with AI. Who will catch the spy first?
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Donat’s story – choose soft skills vs hard skills
Donat’s going to miss his dream job to more experienced candidates, unless he can work a miracle. … A story of soft skills vs hard skills.
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Too many presidents – how to protect data privacy rights
A young business analyst must confront her feared boss. The 3-page story covers data privacy rights in a large company, and snooping by intelligence agencies. The story also illustrates how to manage unknown-unknowns.
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4 ways to manage unknown unknowns and their opportunities
Unknown unknowns are surprises that create risks or problems, but they can also provide major opportunities. Here is how to manage them, applied across projects, operations and defence.
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The secret devil’s advocate – a story of managing the unknown
The Secret Devil’s Advocate is a fictional account of managing “unknown unknowns”. The 7-page story illustrates standard methods, listed here.
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Examples of unknown unknowns – a personal take
A personal take on why it’s important to have examples of unknown unknowns that tell of opportunity as well as threats, and a story of an unknown unknown that happened to me.