Old School Old hands used to be cynical about debriefs – a “search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent, and praise and honours for the non-participants.” New School Candid Cycle uses human experience and structured questions to understand what happened, what it means and what should change. AI strengthens a human-led inquiry rather than… Read More
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Learning from history
Margaret MacMillan opens The Uses and Abuses of History (2009) with this warning, and it’s worth sitting with. History doesn’t offer clean lessons; it offers material, and material can be shaped to fit almost any conclusion someone has already reached. MacMillan is careful to distinguish between using history and abusing it. Using it means treating… Read More
How Could Candid Cycle have helped KPMG?
Candid Cycle could not guarantee that misconduct never occurred, but it could have made it harder to normalise, conceal, and mishandle. Its greatest value would be as a structured, evidenced learning-and-escalation system around sensitive engagements, bid decisions, and whistleblower concerns. KPMG Australia’s crisis reportedly centres on alleged misuse of confidential client material to pursue other… Read More
