Books, best practices, practical lessons and guides for clearer thinking and better decision-making.
The Phronesium Library of Practical Wisdom
The Phronesium Library of Practical Wisdom
This practical Phronesium Guide brings the IIA Topical Requirements together in one clear, easy-to-use resource—covering cybersecurity, third-party risk, organizational behaviour and organizational resilience.
Use it to identify gaps, strengthen audit programmes and show that every requirement has been considered, covered or clearly explained.
Less searching. Better evidence. Stronger assurance.
The 15 Principles of Internal Audit guide our work, but remembering them all is not always easy.
This collection brings each principle to life through visual wallpapers inspired by history, philosophy, science, sport, literature and art—making the principles easier to remember, discuss and apply.
Created for auditors, students and audit teams, they keep good practice where it belongs: in sight and in mind.
By arranging the 30 principles as a periodic table, it groups them into four practical families: managing yourself, building relationships, influencing others and leading with respect.
Each principle is explained in simple language, with examples showing how to use it in everyday conversations, difficult meetings and moments of disagreement.
The aim is to communicate with greater empathy, clarity and judgement.
Better decisions often begin with better relationships.
Good audit reports do not need more words. They need better ones.
Inspired by William Zinsser's On Writing Well, this Phronesium guide turns eight timeless principles of good writing into a practical periodic table for auditors.
Through clear explanations, practical examples and before-and-after comparisons, it explores how these principles of good writing can help us write reports that are easier to read, easier to understand and easier to act upon.
Because clear writing is not decoration but part of good judgement.
What may be shaping your decision without you noticing?
Inspired by Robert Cialdini’s six principles of influence, this practical Phronesium guide explores how reciprocity, commitment, social proof, liking, authority and scarcity can affect professional judgement.
The principles are presented as the six faces of a cube. Turn the cube, consider each face and examine the decision from a different angle.
Designed with auditors in mind, the guide includes concise examples, challenge questions and practical safeguards that can be used throughout the audit process—from planning and fieldwork to reporting and issue closure.
The purpose is not to remove influence from our decisions. That would be impossible.
It is to notice influence before it decides for us.
Turn the cube. Name the pressure. Return to the evidence.