I used to watch Dora the Explorer with my daughter, a cartoon about a “7-year-old girl who embarks on a trip in every episode in order to find something or help somebody”. In every show she consults the map in her backpack, known as Map, who tells Dora how to get to her destination. What [...]
Posts Tagged ‘risk’
Dora the Explorer and too much risk
Posted in ERM Basics, Humour, My Opinions, tagged CAPM, danger, Dora the Explorer, impact, Indiana Jones, Libya, likelihood, Markowitz, risk, shark on March 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Globe and Mail – Oil producers risk
Posted in Risk management, tagged Algeria, Globe and Mail, google map, Libya, oil, risk, Russia, Saudi on March 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Globe and Mail has a pretty cool Google Map of its assessment of the threats to the major oil suppliers. Who doesn’t love a map with red, yellow and green risk indicators! Have a look here: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/a-risk-scorecard-for-the-worlds-oil-producers/article1921654/
Kid risk management: Tattoo You
Posted in My Opinions, tagged children, Disney, kat von d, risk, safetytat, tattoo on November 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
My props go out to the blog Free Safety and Risk Management Resources for bringing this product to my attention: SafetyTat’s temporary child ID tattoos. We all worry about our small kids getting lost at Disney World (or the Toys R Us in Times Square?), so why not temporary “brand” your kids with your contact info. [...]
Cheaters and liars
Posted in My Opinions, tagged cheaters, risk on September 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Globe and Mail is conducting a survey today asking respondents if they ever cheated on a test. At the time this post was published, only 45% of people said Yes. (Really!) I find it very hard to believe that the answer isn’t 99%. I am no cheater but it’s pretty likely sometime in grade [...]
Bad name risk
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged reputation risk, risk on June 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There is absolutely nothing funny about what happened to the six women who claim to have been sexually assaulted by Regina, SK doctor Edward Poon. It’s awful in fact. Having said that, the guy’s last name is Poon. (If you don’t know what the pejorative meaning of this word is, look it up.) I cannot tell who [...]
Fewer people got swine flu shot
Posted in ERM Basics, My Opinions, Office and culture, Risk management, tagged ERM, H1N1, risk, Toronto on May 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Should Public Health really be concerned that so few people received the H1N1 vaccination last winter? http://bit.ly/cbqZAh Do I have to explain this? Last year when the craziness and panic was being spread by the media faster than the swine flu itself, there was a run on the vaccination centres. People were lining up for [...]
Freshly ground typo risk
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Pasta Bible, reputation risk, risk on April 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It’s funny how the slightest typing error can cause so much chaos. Australian publisher destroys cookbook for recipe that called for ‘freshly ground black people’ An Australian publisher is reprinting 7,000 cookbooks over a recipe for pasta with “salt and freshly ground black people.” Penguin Group Australia’s head of publishing, Bob Sessions, acknowledged the proofreader [...]
What risk management should be
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CFA, Rick Nason, risk, risk management, var on April 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I had the pleasure of listening to Rick Nason from RSD Solutions and Dalhousie University speak last night at the Fields Institute in Toronto. There have been opportunities to go to PRMIA-sponsored risk management presentations in the past, but I rarely attend for fear that I would be the only person in the crowd who has not memorized [...]
Risk in the 1960s
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cigarettes, drinking, Mad Men, risk on March 5, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I’ve just started watching the AMC show Mad Men on DVD. (Yes, I know, I am three seasons behind.) And while I was aware that the show was set in 1960 in New York ad agency world, I had no idea there was so much risk going on back then. So much smoking, hard drinking [...]
I am most influential in Canada
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged risk, wefollow on February 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I do not pretend to understand how the site www.wefollow.com even works or how it calculates its list of Most Influential Twitter accounts. But according to them, I am currently the Most Influential Canadian in the Risk category and 5th in the Risk Universe. I do not have the most followers either and the last [...]
