Tags: Risk Leadership
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
In Search of the Perfect Swing
Many years ago I signed up for a series of golf lessons with an instructor who insisted on the series approach to learning the game. He explained that golf was a “process,” and one needed to start at the beginning,...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Command Less, Care More
“What does it take to thrive and to do genuinely good, human-centered work in a human world of individuals who have failings, foibles, and doubts, a world of social relationships that range from strong to awkward to awful? The answer...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Coffee, Confusion and Continuous Improvement
The book Born Standing Up, by Steve Martin, is a close-up look at the career of a performer who seemed to skyrocket to success as a standup comedian and then movie-star. As readers of Martin’s book quickly realize, his fast-track to...
Topics: General
December 2, 2016
Resource Type: Articles
Clash of the Nonprofit Titans: Managing Board and CEO Conflicts
Passion and conflict go hand in hand. As heartfelt passion for an organization’s mission is often the selling point that entices people to look for paid and volunteer roles at a nonprofit, it is not surprising that this passion leaves...
Topics: Governance
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: 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: Risk eNews
Brain Freeze
Once again I’m intrigued by and caught up in the latest research and analysis on the human brain. I’ve been re-reading “The New Science of the Teenage Brain,” featured in the October 2011 issue of National Geographic, and I’ve begun...
Topics: HR Risk and Employment Practices
November 17, 2016
Resource Type: Infographics
The Overconfidence Effect
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Topics: General
April 6, 2016
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Ready, Mindset, Go!
During two Risk Assessments / ERM engagements for complex nonprofit organizations, our team has shared the idea of a ‘risk aware mindset’ with our clients. What are we referring to? In general, we’re talking about a leadership team that is: Eager to learn, and...
Topics: Enterprise Risk Management
December 23, 2015
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Join the Culture Club
Assuming you love your job, what is it about your nonprofit that makes it a wonderful place to work? Despite the undeniable uniqueness of nonprofits, most organizations have the following elements in common: a compelling mission, a defined leadership structure,...
Topics: Organizational Culture