Like most people, I’ve been generally supportive of the Egyptian revolution we’ve all been watching for the last two weeks. Can’t say I’ll stick with my idea to see the Pyramids on vacation later this summer, but overall as an American I tend to like democratic impulses bursting into the world scene.
From a more professional perspective, however, the Egyptian revolution comes across as the painfully logical conclusion of miscalculations and poor planning by that country’s executive management. Compliance officers and risk managers can draw plenty of lessons from what we’ve witnessed in Cairo—and most likely, will witness again elsewhere in the Arab world sometime soon. Let me dwell on three in particular.
