Last week I received an email from PMP Certification Training letting me know that Riskczar.com was named to their list of 50 Best Risk Management Blogs. When I started bringing you Riskczar’s Blog, I was happy to see that folks were reading and leaving comments. Getting acknowledged in any way, especially like this, is a [...]
Archive for June, 2011
Another Riskczar honour
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged award, best blog, blog, PMP Certification Training, risk management on June 27, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Reputation risk: Is Delta Airlines the Mel Gibson of aviation?
Posted in My Opinions, Politics, Risk management, tagged airlines, delta, Israel, Jewish, Mel Gibson, reputation risk, Saudi on June 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Has Delta Airlines become the Mel Gibson of air travel? As Riskczar.com reported recently, Delta Airlines took a reputation hit because it was charging US soldiers $200 for shelping their four piece of luggage when returning from the War on Terror. Now, they are coming off like anti-Semites. When Delta Airlines took over Northwest Airlines and their [...]
When treating a risk creates another risk and so on and so on
Posted in Books, ERM Basics, Humour, Lean Six Sigma, My Opinions, Risk management, tagged audit, Bryson, impact, likelihood, Luftwaffe, mitigate, risk management, risk treatment, spreadsheet risk on June 21, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Sometimes in an effort to treat an issue, we generate a different risk or increase an existing one in the process. Many of us can relate to when the internal auditors come in, look at existing processes and weak controls and “strongly suggest” that management fix the problem. Quickly. Management’s solution is often a series [...]
Seth Godin’s disaster tolerance
Posted in Risk management, Thought Leadership, tagged Disaster, risk, risk management, risk tolerance, Seth Godin on June 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t often copy and paste entire posts of others without a clever preamble but it’s really hot out and I’m tired plus this post by Seth Godin called “Disaster Tolerance” speaks for itself. Not all disasters can be avoided. Not all disasters are fatal. If you accept these two truths, your approach to risk will [...]
Boston Red Sox vs. Santa Monica Black Swan
Posted in Humour, Lean Six Sigma, Sports, tagged Black Swan, Mark Spitznagel, probability, Red Sox, Taleb on June 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »
While researching for new reasons why Taleb is nuts, I came across this story about his former right-tailed man, Mark Spitznagel. This guy has managed to get 15 investors to ante a minimum of $50 million on a bet that they’ll clean up when the S&P falls 40%. So until then (whenever that is), he [...]
Hockey risk management: Watching too much on tv can kill you
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged hockey, NHL, risk management, tv on June 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Even before the slew of recent severe concussions in the NHL (it’s all the rage since Sidney Crosby got his) or fractures to cervical vertebra, we knew that hockey was hazardous to the health of those who played the game. But did we know it is hazardous to those who watch it too? According to [...]
Review of Keith Baxter’s book Fast Track to Success: Risk Management
Posted in Books, ERM Basics, Frameworks, League of Extraordinary Risk Gentlemen, Risk management, tagged Dragon Tattoo, ERM, Harry Potter, Keith Baxter, risk management, Seven Habits, Stephen Covey on June 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
When Keith Baxter published his book Fast Track to Success: Risk Management, I tweeted to him I would read it during the Christmas break last year then review it. At that time I was about halfway through 4100 pages of Harry Potter novels and had a hard time putting down that series to read a [...]
Reputation risk at Delta Airlines
Posted in My Opinions, Risk management, tagged airline, delta, reputation risk on June 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Delta. What were you thinking? When a soldier is coming back from war, nothing says thank you and God Bless America like charging him an extra $200 for a fourth bag (containing his weapon no less). Thanks to the often thankless work that the men and women of the military are doing in Afghanistan and [...]
The risk of watching porn and masturbating at work
Posted in Humour, My Opinions, Office and culture, tagged Brazil, business ethics, Californication, Charlie Runkle, masturbate, porn, pron, SEC on June 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
It wasn’t too long ago that women couldn’t breast feed infants in the workplace and now we have lactation rooms; they are a good way to help mothers transition back to work and continue breastfeeding their child. (That said we may call them “quiet rooms” because naming a room after mammary secretions is still sort of [...]
