Categories: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Learning from Experience
As our country prepares for the annual holiday where Americans predictably over-indulge, I’ve been reflecting on an important concept in risk management: the role of experience. As I’ve told many audiences, experience is an invaluable risk management tool available to every...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Reality TV and Risk Management
This article first appeared in riskVue, the Webzine for risk management professionals. For more information, visit www.riskVue.com. When the first generation of reality TV programs debuted in the late 1980s and early 1990s, I was appalled. The ratings for programs like COPS (1989)...
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December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Learning from Loss: Risk Management Wisdom May Be Close at Hand
I have had the opportunity to participate in many programs that showcase “great ideas” emanating from success. In one instance, I served on the selection committee for an awards program that recognizes excellent management techniques. Representatives of the “finalists” for...
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December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Legal Advice
When and Why You Need It From time to time, every nonprofit needs legal advice. Whether administered as a vaccine—to ward off or prevent violations of law or other missteps by the nonprofit—or as an antidote—to help the nonprofit survive...
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December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Stepping Around or Stepping Up?
Coping with difficult risk management issues Recently, my newspaper in San Antonio — and many others across the nation — carried an article1 with a startling headline: “Body lay in kitchen for 2 years.” The headline compelled me to read the...
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December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Less Is Really More
Nonprofit execs often worry they don’t have enough handbooks, manuals, and guidelines setting forth the organization’s risk management policies. This article suggests that the real worry should be that those documents are overweight and inefficient. The article suggests ways you...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Don’t Be Superstitious about Risk
I’m a compulsive calendar checker. I no longer have a black, spiral bound desk calendar, but I consult my electronic calendar at least a dozen times throughout the workday. With the Ides of March approaching, I was reminded of the role that...
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December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Stop and Think About Inherent Dangers
Some dangers are so familiar that we don’t give them the attention they are due: distracted driving, crossing a busy street, navigating an escalator, or using a ladder. The potential danger of everyday events popped into my head on Monday...
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December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Embracing the Unknown
This week I’ve been reading a wonderful book titled Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life, by Karen Armstrong. I ordered a copy for purely personal reasons, but found inside this inspiring new book several wonderful connections to sound risk management practice....
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December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Rock n Roll n Risk Management
A friend of the Center, who happens to be an accomplished sound engineer, forwarded a terrific article to us this week about how the best rock n’ roll roadies can do things many music fans might believe are impossible. Why?...
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