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February 4, 2025

Resource Type: Risk eNews

How to Simplify and Streamline During a Crisis

By Melanie Lockwood Herman  “An infinite-minded leader does not simply want to build a company that can weather change but one that can be transformed by it. They want to build a company that embraces surprises and adapts with them.”...

January 27, 2025

Resource Type: Risk eNews

Cultivate Your Risk Manager Superpowers

When was your last big risk management win? Did you feel like you’d earned your superhero cape?  Reflecting on our successes can help us build on areas where we excel as risk managers. It can also help us identify areas...

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December 16, 2024

Resource Type: Risk eNews

NRMC’s Most Popular Risk Articles of 2024

By Rachel Sams  This year, the risk managers in NRMC’s audience navigated competing demands to stay open to possibilities yet have all the answers. They sought a sense of calm and tools to help their nonprofit build resilience in the...

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December 10, 2024

Resource Type: Risk eNews

Learn, Don’t Ruminate, About Past Disruptions

By Melanie Lockwood Herman “That could have been so much worse!” I replied to a friend telling me about his disrupted morning commute due to a tire sidewall failure on a busy highway. After the conversation ended, it occurred to...

December 2, 2024

Resource Type: Risk eNews

Maximize Your Risk Learning in 2025

By Rachel Sams In early 2023, I attended a webinar that encouraged nonprofits to approach artificial intelligence with curiosity, rather than fear. At the time, the explosion of generative AI, which allows users to create text and other media, gave...

November 18, 2024

Resource Type: Articles, Risk eNews

Good Problems: Why Risks (Possibilities) Are Exactly What Your Mission Needs

By Melanie Lockwood Herman I’ve recently finished a book by the blogger Mark Manson. I found many delightful surprises in Manson’s writing, and a few unnerving ones. While I embrace the knotty dilemmas in risk management, I recognize that many...

November 12, 2024

Resource Type: Articles, Risk eNews

Optimist or Pessimist? Risk Management Needs Both.

By Melanie Lockwood Herman I’ve just returned from a wonderful vacation with a college friend I’ve known for many decades. During our adventures in a place neither of us knew much about, we reveled in our shared interests and marveled...

October 31, 2024

Resource Type: Articles, Risk eNews

5 Steps to Better Risk Communication

Years ago, a boss confided in me about a personal issue that would impact her work schedule. She asked me to briefly tell each of the team members I managed about the issue, so they’d know why she was out...

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October 2, 2024

Resource Type: Articles, Risk eNews

Obsessing Over Risk Issues? That’s OK, If You Do It Right.

“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.” - Daniel Kahneman I remember when the Calvin Klein cologne “Obsession” debuted in the mid-1980s. I was (and still am) a cynic who...

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September 25, 2024

Resource Type: Articles, Risk eNews

Risk Managers Must Learn to See What’s Already There. Here’s How.

I recently finished a fascinating book on the power and perils of something all humans experience: habituation. In Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There, Tali Sharot and Cass R. Sunstein encourage readers to seize and embrace...

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