Categories: General
December 6, 2017
Resource Type: Webinars
If I Only Had a Brain: Neuroscience and Risk Management
Cajoling colleagues into supporting risk management initiatives isn’t easy. Did you know that: the “laggy, lazy and distracted” brains of your staff and volunteers are hard-wired with roadblocks to risk-aware thinking and decision-making? various thinking patterns—including both intuitive shortcuts and...
Topics: General
December 5, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
How Neuroscience and Risk Management Link to Fear and Memory
“To our brains, daily life is like tightrope-walking over a vast pit full of furious honey badgers and broken glass; one wrong move and you’ll end up as a gruesome mess in temporary but exquisite pain.” – Dean Burnett, Idiot Brain:...
Topics: General
November 22, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Inquiring Minds Want to Know
This week I’ve been reading The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters, by Tom Nichols. In this thought-provoking and provocative book, Nichols mourns how expertise has been devalued and dismissed, replaced with dangerous “intellectual egalitarianism.”...
Topics: General
October 25, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Gibberisk: Risk’s Mangled & Made-up Words
Have you ever exuberantly crooned the chorus of a popular song and later discovered that you had mangled the lyrics? Today’s music fans can use a search engine to quickly verify the lyrics of a favorite tune. But when I...
Topics: General
October 11, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Risk Lessons from Soccer’s Sidelines
I spent a big chunk of time recently as a supportive sideline spectator at a soccer tournament with my kids. They play on two different teams, so there were a lot of games and not much downtime. While sidelined, it...
Topics: General
October 11, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
RISK HELP from NRMC
The NRMC team enjoyed a lot of help in planning and executing our recent annual conference, the Risk Summit. Check out photos from the event to find yourself in the crowd or--if you couldn't join us--to see what you missed....
Topics: General
September 27, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
The Illusion of Teams
Teams are often viewed as a possible panacea for complex organizational challenges. However, forming and deploying teams to address perennial problems sometimes creates a mirage; leaders believe they see something that isn’t really there. Effective teams are more often an...
Topics: General
August 23, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
The Risk of Regret: Not Every Mission Really Lives
In Everybody Dies But Not Everybody Lives, rapper and spoken word artist Prince Ea challenges us to be open to risk-taking: “There was a study done, a hospital study on 100 elderly people. Facing death, close to their last breath they...
Topics: General
August 4, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Dream Big: 10 Lessons Learned from Skydiving
On Monday, I had the opportunity to jump out of a plane from 10,000 feet in the air at 120 miles per hour. Yes, that’s right, I went skydiving! If you’ve seen my bio on the NRMC website, you would...
Topics: General
July 19, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Say Cheese! Serving Up Risk Communication
em>"How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?" - Charles de Gaulle Some argue that with this inquiry, French general and politician Charles de Gaulle lamented the Cold War era work ethic and priorities of his...
Topics: General