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#437 – COMMUNITY DISASTER RESILIENCE ZONE ACT – JAMES KLINE PH.D.

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This is the second of two articles submitted to CERM Insights at about the same time. This one deals with the Community Disaster Resilience Zone Act passed by the United States Congress on December 22, 2022. The other deals with the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Cyber Security Framework 2.0.  Together they form a mosaic of the Biden Administration’s Risk Management push. Continue reading →

#437 – TRUE & FALSE INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT – IAN DALLING

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Two tails of management are in common circulation, one Integrated Management and the other is Combination Management, although the latter is commonly pedalled as integrated. This presents a problem when seeking to improve management processes and organisational performance.   Continue reading →

#437 – DESIGNING A BETTER YOU – GREG HUTCHINS PE CERM

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Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Steve Jobs – Apple Co-Founder

The objective of any self improvement book  is to take charge and design a better,stronger, and more resilient you. Better can be whatever you dream or want of yourself.

Intentional Self-Management means working on yourself continually. It can be 1% improvement daily. It can be lifelong upskilling. It can be daily meditation or mindfulness. As an engineer, we like the metaphor that you are designing and developing your Intentional Self-Management and Brand You Pivot practices. Continue reading →

#436 – WHAT IS THE LINK BETWEEN RELIABILITY AND BRAND? – FRED SCHENKELBERG

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In short, you probably do, better reliability performance the better the brand image.

When I’m making a purchase I prefer to buy items that I either have personal experience work well over time (reliable) or have many comments and reviews noting the durability. Continue reading →

#436 – HUMAN RIGHTS: WHAT’S WRONG? – MALCOLM PEART

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Human rights in some form or another have been around since humankind began.  Some people had more rights than others while others had less.  This depended on the power held and influence through either benevolence or fear.  As in Animal Farm, “all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” with correspondingly more rights. Continue reading →