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Dark Towers by David Enrich: Summary and Lessons for Auditors
Enrich’s history of Deutsche Bank, summarised for auditors: the transformation and its control failures, the main penalties checked against regulators’ releases and updated to 2026, the Trump record…
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Blind Spots by Bazerman and Tenbrunsel: Summary and Lessons for Auditors
Bazerman and Tenbrunsel on why people fail to do what is right, summarised for auditors: bounded ethicality, ethical fading, motivated and indirect blindness, the studies and their replication…
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32–48 minutes -
Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed: Summary and Lessons for Auditors
Syed on why some fields learn from failure and most do not, summarised for auditors: the structure, the aviation and healthcare cases checked and updated to 2026, later…
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Crucial Conversations, Third Edition: Summary and Lessons for Auditors
The third edition of Crucial Conversations, summarised for auditors: silence and violence, choosing the topic, starting with heart, mastering stories, making it safe, STATE, exploring others’ paths, moving…
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Getting to Yes by Fisher, Ury and Patton: Summary and Lessons for Auditors
Fisher, Ury and Patton’s method of principled negotiation, summarised for auditors: the four elements, BATNA, jujitsu and dirty tricks, the line between what is and is not negotiable…
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On Writing Well by William Zinsser: Summary and Lessons for Audit Reports
William Zinsser’s classic guide to nonfiction, summarised for auditors: the four principles, clutter and the bracket test, unity, leads and endings, the business-writing chapter, a vocabulary, an audit…
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Enterprise Risk Management by James Lam: Summary and Lessons for Auditors
Lam’s practitioner’s manual on ERM, summarised for auditors: the seven lessons, the seven components, the ten predictions and how they fared, three later failures, COSO 2017 and the…
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Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke: Summary and Lessons for Auditors
Duke’s argument that decisions are bets, summarised for auditors: resulting and the Super Bowl call, fielding outcomes, truthseeking groups and Merton’s norms, mental time travel, a vocabulary, an…
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How to Measure Anything by Douglas Hubbard: Summary and Lessons for Auditors
Hubbard’s method for measuring “intangibles”, summarised for auditors: the definition of measurement, calibrated estimates, the value of information and the measurement inversion, small-sample tools, a vocabulary, an audit…
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Accelerate by Forsgren, Humble and Kim: Summary and Lessons for IT Auditors
The research behind the DORA metrics, summarised for IT auditors: the four key metrics and the 2017 data, the 24 capabilities and Westrum’s culture model, the change approval…
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Storytelling with Data by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic: Summary and Lessons for Auditors
Knaflic’s six lessons for communicating with data, summarised for auditors: context and the Big Idea, choosing displays for audit data, clutter, focus, design and story, the limits set…
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Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil: Summary and Lessons for Auditors
Cathy O’Neil’s critique of harmful algorithms, summarised for auditors: the tests of opacity, scale and damage, five cases checked against the record, the rules written since 2016, a…
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Brink’s Modern Internal Auditing by Robert Moeller: Summary and How to Use It
Moeller’s eighth edition of Brink’s reference text, summarised: the eight parts and 34 chapters, the common body of knowledge and its levels, where the 2016 edition predates the…
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Agents of Change by Richard Chambers: Summary and Lessons for Internal Auditors
Chambers’s case for internal auditors as catalysts for change, summarised: the 2021 and 2024 editions, the survey of some 600 audit leaders and its perception gap, four traits…
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World-Class Internal Audit by Norman Marks: Summary and Lessons for Audit Leaders
Norman Marks’s career stories, summarised for audit leaders: the high risk not worth fixing, the over-cautious policy, the textbook finding, writing and hiring, what world-class meant at Tosco…
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The Fearless Organization by Amy Edmondson: Summary and Lessons for Auditors
Edmondson on psychological safety, summarised for auditors: the concept and its misreadings, the hospital and team research, the cases checked and updated to 2026, the leader’s tool kit…
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Willful Blindness by Margaret Heffernan: Summary and Lessons for Auditors
Heffernan on why people and institutions ignore the obvious, summarised for auditors: the mechanisms, the real cases checked and updated to 2026, the law since the book, later…
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27–41 minutes -
Noise by Kahneman, Sibony and Sunstein: Summary and Lessons for Auditors
Kahneman, Sibony and Sunstein on unwanted variability in judgment, summarised for auditors: the error equation, level, pattern and occasion noise, the evidence and its critics, decision hygiene, a…
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The Cuckoo’s Egg by Clifford Stoll: Summary and Lessons for IT Auditors
Clifford Stoll’s hunt for a KGB-linked hacker, summarised for auditors: the 75-cent discrepancy, the case checked against the 1990 verdict, the investigator’s methods, the weaknesses exploited, a vocabulary,…
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Meltdown by Clearfield and Tilcsik: Summary and Lessons for Auditors
Clearfield and Tilcsik on why complex, tightly coupled systems fail, summarised for auditors: the danger zone, the cases checked against official records, seven remedies, a vocabulary, an audit…
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The Field Guide to Understanding ‘Human Error’ by Sidney Dekker: Summary for Auditors
Sidney Dekker’s guide to investigating failure, summarised for auditors: the Old View and the New View, the four reactions to failure, the six steps, accident models, a vocabulary,…
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29–43 minutes -
Auditing That Matters by Norman Marks: Summary and Lessons for Audit Leaders
Norman Marks’s case for auditing only what matters to leadership, summarised: enterprise risk-based auditing, the risk universe against the audit universe, reports built for executives, budgets tied to…
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The Bankers’ New Clothes by Admati and Hellwig: Summary and Lessons for Auditors
Admati and Hellwig’s case for far more bank equity, summarised for auditors: the claims and answers, the arithmetic of leverage, the 2024 edition and the 2023 failures, US…
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The Pyramid Principle by Barbara Minto: Summary and Lessons for Audit Reports
Barbara Minto’s method for structured writing, summarised for auditors: the three rules, situation-complication-question-answer introductions, the tests for order and summaries, a vocabulary, an audit map for reports and…
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Corporate Fraud Handbook by Joseph T. Wells: Summary for Internal Auditors
The fifth edition of the ACFE founder’s handbook, summarised for auditors: the three categories, every scheme with a detection test and a control, the 2024 and 2026 ACFE…
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Financial Shenanigans by Schilit, Perler and Engelhart: Summary for Auditors
The fourth edition of Schilit’s catalogue of accounting gimmicks, summarised for auditors: the fifteen shenanigans, the cases and what regulators found, the forensic mindset, a vocabulary, an audit…
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No One Would Listen by Harry Markopolos: Summary and Lessons for Auditors
Markopolos’s account of exposing Madoff, summarised for auditors: the red flags, the SEC inspector general’s findings, the aftermath to 2026, nine ideas, a vocabulary, an audit map and…
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The Speed of Risk by Richard Chambers: Summary and Lessons for Internal Auditors
Chambers’s lessons from the audit trail, summarised for auditors: the speed of risk and the case against static annual plans, the original sixteen lessons, what changed across three…
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Trusted Advisors by Richard Chambers: Summary and Lessons for Internal Auditors
Chambers’s nine attributes of outstanding internal auditors, summarised: ethical resilience, results focus and the rest, how they moved in the 2026 AI edition, a vocabulary, an attribute-by-attribute map…
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Extraordinary Circumstances by Cynthia Cooper: WorldCom, Summarised for Auditors
The memoir of WorldCom’s head of internal audit, summarised for auditors: the 2002 investigation against the official record, what the investigators found about the function, nine ideas, a…
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29–43 minutes