Tags: Risk Management Basics
May 9, 2018
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Celebrate Spring with Surprise
Enjoy the little things in life, because one day you will look back, and realize they were the big things. - Kurt Vonnegut This Spring has been extra special, with news from several colleagues that little ones have arrived or are...
Topics: General
December 7, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Distraction & Decision Fatigue are Brain Drain for Risk Champions
“The actual information that reaches the brain via our senses is not the rich and detailed stream of sights, sounds and sensations that we so often take for granted; in truth, the raw data our senses provide is more like...
Topics: General
December 5, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
How Neuroscience and Risk Management Link to Fear and Memory
“To our brains, daily life is like tightrope-walking over a vast pit full of furious honey badgers and broken glass; one wrong move and you’ll end up as a gruesome mess in temporary but exquisite pain.” – Dean Burnett, Idiot Brain:...
Topics: General
November 22, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Inquiring Minds Want to Know
This week I’ve been reading The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters, by Tom Nichols. In this thought-provoking and provocative book, Nichols mourns how expertise has been devalued and dismissed, replaced with dangerous “intellectual egalitarianism.”...
Topics: General
October 25, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Gibberisk: Risk’s Mangled & Made-up Words
Have you ever exuberantly crooned the chorus of a popular song and later discovered that you had mangled the lyrics? Today’s music fans can use a search engine to quickly verify the lyrics of a favorite tune. But when I...
Topics: General
August 23, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
The Risk of Regret: Not Every Mission Really Lives
In Everybody Dies But Not Everybody Lives, rapper and spoken word artist Prince Ea challenges us to be open to risk-taking: “There was a study done, a hospital study on 100 elderly people. Facing death, close to their last breath they...
Topics: General
August 4, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Dream Big: 10 Lessons Learned from Skydiving
On Monday, I had the opportunity to jump out of a plane from 10,000 feet in the air at 120 miles per hour. Yes, that’s right, I went skydiving! If you’ve seen my bio on the NRMC website, you would...
Topics: General
June 1, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Truth or Story? The Human Capacity for Knowledge
Tell me a story. In this century, and moment, of mania, Tell me a story. Make it a story of great distances, and starlight. The name of the story will be Time, But you must not pronounce its name. Tell...
Topics: General
April 12, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
I Survived: Managing Family Vacation Risk
Last week I led my family of five on a classic rite of passage—a Spring Break trip to Florida to visit Walt Disney World and Universal Studios. I’m pleased to report that the trip went well, we made it home...
Topics: General
March 22, 2017
Resource Type: Risk eNews
Foodie Risk: How Eating Habits Mirror Risk Management Maturity
During the launch of NRMC’s Risk Leadership Certificate Program, I was struck by the amount of sharing and collaboration that happened during the group meals. Participants often took the opportunity to follow up on a topic from an earlier breakout session...
Topics: General