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December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Relationships Are Risky
Relationships are fraught with risk. Whether you’re consoling a friend coping with heartbreak, or commiserating with a nonprofit colleague who has recently fired a supplier, you might hear: “If I had only known…” or “If I could do it again...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Inspiration, Not Perspiration: Risk Reporting and the Board
Today’s public entity leadership cares deeply about the risks facing the organization. A Board wants to know that its leadership team has thoughtfully considered the risks that threaten the mission and objectives of the organization. Boards also want assurance that...
Topics: Governance
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Inspire True and Triumphant Teams
Few leaders are willing to face the wrath of their friends and peers and speak ill of “teamwork.” Yet too often we use the words “team” and “teamwork” when we really mean work groups or a process involving a group...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Remember This
“…who we are and what we do is fundamentally a function of what we remember.” — Joshua Foer It took a few pages (“locations” for Kindle readers) before I was fully committed to the book I’m reading this week, “Moonwalking with...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Inspired at the Front Line
Front line leaders are key players in the delivery of programs and services in a nonprofit organization. With daily client contact, employees working in branch offices, chapters, local affiliates, community-based service sites or field offices work hard to bring the...
Topics: Governance
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Shift Happens
I’ve been engrossed in the pages of a new book this week: Surviving and Thriving in Uncertainty: Creating the Risk Intelligent Enterprise by Frederick Funston and Stephen Wagner. The pages of this text offer a refreshing approach to integrating the principles of...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Inspired by Risk
The staff members at the Nonprofit Risk Management Center find inspiration from many sources. We are moved by the ambitious missions of our consulting clients. We admire the unwavering dedication of our volunteer board. We marvel at the steadfast commitment...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Short, Sweet and Shallow
The sense of frustration that overcomes me when I cannot remember something that seems vital in the moment has become a recurring, increasingly unpleasant phenomenon. Like many of my generation I instinctively blame the inability to recall information on my aging brain....
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Leadership is Hard
This week I’ve been reading “The Hard Thing About Hard Things,” by Ben Horowitz, the former CEO of Opsware, whose company was acquired by HP for $1.6 Billion in 2007. What practical advice might a Silicon Valley tech executive turned...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Great Communication Mitigates Risk
Last week we welcomed a new staff member to the Center, Arley Turner. At the Center, communication skills top the list of what it takes to get hired and succeed. So for this week’s RISK eNews, we decided to try something...
Topics: General