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#327 – WANT TO LIVE LONG AND PROSPER? – ALLEN TAYLOR

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For Star Trek Vulcans, the polite way to say good-bye is to say, “Live long and prosper.” For a Vulcan landing on Earth today, the possibility of that wish coming true depends a lot on what country the Vulcan visitor lands in. It would be more of a stretch if the spacefarers had landed in the United States, than if they had landed in any of sixteen other high income countries. The June 2021 issue of the British Medical Journal (The BMJ), contains an article that directly relates to long life. Its title is “Effect of the covid-19 pandemic in 2020 on life expectancy across populations in the USA and other high income countries: simulations of provisional mortality data.” Continue reading →

#326 – HOW TO SELECT THE IDEAL PROJECT TEAM – JOHN AYERS

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I have some experience with the Enneagram personality method. I found it to be accurate and useful. I suggest it is a good method to consider using to select your project team. The paper starts with a brief description of the Enneagram basics and then explains tips that can be used to select your team. Two figures are included to help explain the basics. You can go online and get a lot more detail information about the Enneagram method. Continue reading →

#326 – PERSONAL AND BUSINESS RISK IN TODAY’S ENVIRONMENT- JIM TONEY

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Was the COVID-19 pandemic a harbinger of an increase in scope and seriousness of perceived and real threats to individuals and businesses?(1) What should one consider about threats to assess their likelihood of occurring and consequences to gauge the level of risk for a person or business?

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen. – Herodotus (2) Continue reading →

#326 – WHY YOU NEED MULTI-DISCIPLINARY, INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT – HOWARD WIENER

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This article is excerpted from my upcoming book Agile Enterprise Risk Management: Risk-Based Thinking, Multi-Disciplinary Management and Digital Transformation.  The book provides a framework for evolving your Risk Management function to make it operate in a nearly-continuous fashion, which will allow it to keep pace with the rate of change required to remain competitive today.

We are advocating for your transformation to a more agile organization.  In all likelihood, you’ve already begun—created internal collaboration capabilities and customer-facing, web-enabled services.  But you probably have a long, long way to go before you have reached an optimal level of business agility. Continue reading →

#326 – BEING SET UP FOR FAILURE – JOSEPH PARIS

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Employers don’t hire people – or assign them a project or task – in the hopes they will fail.  And employees don’t take on a job, project, or task in the hopes they will fail.  On the contraire, the expectations all around are that the outcome will be successful.

Certainly, sometimes the outcomes are not successful.  But these unsuccessful outcomes are generally more tolerated – even expected – in companies that are in their early stages or have a company culture that is more entrepreneurial and not so risk adverse.  And when an unsuccessful outcome in such companies occurs, it’s usually a disappointment (and you certainly don’t want to make being unsuccessful a habit), but it’s not usually a negative mark on the employee. Continue reading →