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Sustainable Risk Management

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“Ag, food, and risk management” are the future of Cargill according to the President of Cargill, the global agricultural company.

Fortune Magazine brought environmentalists and corporate folks together at the Brainstorm Green Conference last week.  It was’t a love fest from these traditional adversaries, but there seemed to be a new understanding and even agreement about the reality of the future of the environment.

They’ve seen the future and it is risk based.  The planet now has 7 billion people and 3 more billion are expected within a few generations.  How are they going to be fed?

Huge question.  No easy answer.  However, it’s bringing the mega corporations and environmentalists together with a huge concern to find common solutions.   The environmental community calls the solution: ‘sustainable intensification.’  The corporate agricultural community has a huge challenge – how to double agricultural production with existing acreage.

With huge challenges, the solution is now risk based collaboration even with traditional adversaries.

For more information, visit the article:

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/04/18/greg-page-mark-tercek-transcript/

Have You Read a Book Recently?

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“Have you read a book recently?”   “And, let’s talk about it?”

This may be the most important question that you may have in a job interview.  Interviewers want to know that you can add real and immediate value to their organization.  They want to know that you’ve kept current with what’s going on in your profession and with technology

For example, you may have gotten an engineering degree 8 years ago.  But, the amount of knowledge in your engineering discipline may have doubled and even tripled over the last 8 years.  Did you keep current in your discipline?  How did you keep current?  School?  Certifications?

Maybe, that’s why I’m seeing a lot more folks at Barnes & Noble

Books on Risk

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Half or more of the business books now published deal with risk. Or, so it seems.

I just got back from Barnes & Noble. As a past author, I check out new hard cover books, which are a window into important business trends.

Maybe, it’s a situation of ‘where you sit is what you see.’ So, I sit in the risk space and all I see is risk. Risk in crossing the street. Risk in buying this or doing that.

But, the new hard cover business books point to a hard realization that risk is the new normal or new reset. And, it’s not going away.

Some implications: All if not most of the business rules are changing. Organizations and people are not ready for the changes. We need new: 1. Risk based, problem solving and 2. Risk based, decision making tools.

Hence, we are getting lots of business trade books explaining what to do to deal with risk.