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November 5, 2018
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Four Favorite Risk Reads for Risk Champions
Topics: General
November 1, 2018
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Accidental Risk Champion: Accidentally On Purpose
(Pictured, from left to right: Philip Briggs, Kevin Duke, Julie Reyburn, Heather Chadwick, Amanda Rudy and Ma'Rion Horhn.) Last weekend the Fall 2018 cohort of NRMC's Risk Leadership Certificate Program journeyed to our headquarters in Leesburg, VA for the second...
Topics: General
October 18, 2018
Resource Type: Risk eNews
The Power of Anecdote: True Stories of Nonprofit Risk from the Front Lines
While attending the Risk Summit, it occurred to me that a powerful benefit of the conference was the opportunity to exchange true stories and tough lessons learned on the frontlines of nonprofit service. After hearing several leaders describe how their...
Topics: General
October 9, 2018
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Scorched Middle Earth: Banishing The Department of No
As fans of high fantasy fiction know first-hand, Middle-earth is the fictional setting for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, the most widely-read books from English writer J. R. R. Tolkien. According to Wikipedia, “Middle-earth has also become a short-hand to...
Topics: Enterprise Risk Management
September 26, 2018
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Technology Mishaps: Planning for IT and Communications Disasters
For most of us, the word “disaster” usually brings to mind a natural disaster like a hurricane or a tsunami, but in the risk management world technology disasters immediately come to mind. An unexpected loss of data or communication can...
Topics: Business Continuity Planning, Data Privacy, Tech Risk, Cybersecurity
September 19, 2018
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Talking Cures: Authentic Risk Management
Inspiration for RISK eNews often comes from the work we do answering day-to-day RISK HELP questions from our Affiliate Members. It also comes from the more cerebral work of helping our consulting clients build durable risk management frameworks, resources, and plans. RISK HELP is almost-always...
Topics: General
September 5, 2018
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Get All Defensive: A Crash Course To Reduce Distracted Driving
Assuming you commute by car, how much behind the wheel bad behavior do you see in the course of a week? The low hanging rotten fruit is distracted driving from use of personal electronic devices (PEDs) for navigation, tunes, talk, or texting....
September 5, 2018
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Uncertainty: A New Formula for Crisis
There is a widely held and often repeated chestnut of Far Eastern wisdom that the Chinese word for “crisis” is composed of two seemingly opposite but complimentary characters. Maybe you’ve heard this one? It’s a gnomic gem that is particularly...
August 22, 2018
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Publishing Rights: Fair And Fit To Print
Online aggregators have a pesky habit of repackaging content they’ve trolled from the web, rather than paying for and producing original content. You may have discovered this yourself, spotting your content or intellectual property cut up and republished without attribution...
Topics: General
August 15, 2018
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Good Measures: Reassessing Your Social Media Response
Frustrated flyer? Take to social media and dispute it with the airline, looping in one of the top executives with an @ sign. Have a small apartment mailbox clogged with fliers, special offers and unwanted catalogues? Want to stop receiving...