Categories: General
December 31, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Don’t Fret Failure
“Most people are afraid of failure. They have been taught to be afraid of it.” – Bruce Mau When you reflect on the past year, if you recall triumphs as well as failures, you’re not alone. Everyone miscalculates and misfires...
Topics: General
December 14, 2017
Resource Type: Infographics
Five Favorite Reads for Risk Professionals
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Topics: General
December 12, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Risk Leadership Resources for Nonprofit Risk Champions
November 30, 2017 Explore this RISK eNewsletter filled with risk leadership resources [caption id="attachment_17409" align="alignnone" width="554"] Image source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series#/media/File:Leonard_Nimoy_William_Shatner_Star_Trek_1968.JPG[/caption] What Star Trek Taught Me about Risk Leadership There's not exactly a Starfleet Academy for nonprofit risk professionals, like in the...
Topics: General
December 7, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Distraction & Decision Fatigue are Brain Drain for Risk Champions
“The actual information that reaches the brain via our senses is not the rich and detailed stream of sights, sounds and sensations that we so often take for granted; in truth, the raw data our senses provide is more like...
Topics: 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