This month’s whitepaper is from the December Harvard Business Review by Maxwell Wessel and Clayton M. Christensen and is titled “Surviving Disruption“. (My thanks to a colleague for highlighting it for me – thanks David!) You can access the article by registering for free on the Harvard Business Review website here. Wessel and Christensen use
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So many people that I meet for the first time from outside the risk profession have a very poor perception of risk management as a discipline. They see it as a compliance activity at best and most see it as a handbrake on business. Recently my wife described me to a new acquaintance as one
Since Darwin’s Origin of the Species, we have recognised how nature adapts to survive. Modern humankind continues to adapt to survive while following these two innate risk management principles: • If it hurts us we learn and take action in proportion to the degree of pain. • The next time we face the same pain
One of my business mentors, Matt Church, brought this paper from the University of Phoenix Research Institute to my attention recently. It makes a case for the following ten skills as the ones to develop and/or keep on top of: 1. Sense-making 2. Social intelligence 3. Novel & adaptive thinking 4. Cross-cultural competency 5. Computational