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December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Calculated Risk: The Risk Management Checkup: Ten Tips
Most of you who are reading this newsletter have given some thought to managing risk within your organizations. You've taken a look at your insurance requirements, reviewed your personnel policies, examined your service delivery to make sure that safety procedures...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Calculated Risk: The End of the World as We’ve Known It Not!
During the last century, a handful of historians and academicians debated the question of who was the first risk manager. In his new book, The Polar Bear Strategy, author John Ross traces back the history of risk management to a...
Topics: Risk Assessment
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Calculated Risk: Calculated Risk Three Foundations
Movin through the spheres, faster than light On our way to some planets that were outta sight! We said space driver, give it a spin And take us to some places We ain't never been. — "Is That You Mo-Dean?"...
Topics: Risk Assessment
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Calculated Risk: Rocket Man
The world rests on three foundations: On study, on service, and on acts of benevolence. — Ethics of the Fathers (a classic work from around the year 200.) My grandfather died in April at the age of 96. It came...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Calculated Risk: Left Behind
The smallest sprout shows that there is really no death? — Walt Whitman Late last summer they took down a giant oak near the center of my small town, located about 25 miles from the nation's capital. Aerial photos of...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Calculated Risk: Journey of a Lifetime
Feeling inadequate? Dreaming of doing something with your life? Want to make a difference? Get real! Here is a work of miniscule proportions that will lower the bar — again! Do you strive for perfection? Do you spend countless hours...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Calculated Risk: Good Surprise, Bad Surprise: The Law of Unintended Consequences
When my son was just learning how to run, he often took a tumble. Occasionally, he would fall down a bit hard and though he wasn't really hurt, the shock and the injustice of the accident would bring him to...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Calculated Risk: Fear of Excellence
"When one makes a journey, one has stories to tell." — German Proverb) Think globalization is a new concept? Think again. This summer my journey of a thousand miles began with a single step — on to a Washington, D.C....
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Broken Promises, Shattered Trust
Preventing and Responding to Fraud and Misuse of Assets in a Nonprofit Organization During the recent 39th annual Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS) annual conference held April 29-May 3rd in Atlanta, GA, a panel-style workshop on the topic of...
Topics: Fraud and Financial Oversight
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Abuse Coverage Isn’t as Elusive as a Needle in a Haystack, but It Will Cost You
Hardening market conditions cause nonprofit risk managers to lose sleep and patience after receiving nonrenewal letters, notices of changes in the terms and conditions of coverage, and word from weary brokers and agents explaining that the same or less coverage...
Topics: Insurance and Risk Financing