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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Gut instincts can only take you so far in life, and anyone who operates outside of a sound decisioning framework will eventually fall prey to an act of oversight, misinformation, misunderstanding, manipulation, impulsivity or some other negative influencing factor. They make bad decisions. Our Freedom. All Rights Reserved

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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? At the risk of drawing the ire of corporate elitists, I submit to you that the dumber your business is, the better off you are. Our Freedom. All Rights Reserved

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The Olympics as a Story of Risk Management

Harvard Business Review

Risk management is now at the heart of the governance model for the Olympic Games and the Olympic movement, and not only because of their growing scale and complexity. At the start of the Atlanta 1996 Olympics, it was a catalog of minor operational and logistical problems that led journalists to start reporting on "the glitch Games."

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Complimentary Resource – Summer 2013 Mood Tracker Report: Empowering Employees to Improve Performance

Strategy Driven

Complimentary Resource – Operational Risk Management: How Best-in-Class Manufacturers Improve Operating Performance with Proactive Risk Reduction. Complimentary Resource – The iPass Mobile Workforce Report (May 2010). Complimentary Resource – 10 Metrics for 2013 Marketing Success.

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Good Risk Management Means No Buck-Passing

Harvard Business Review

pipeline explosion in September 2010. Firefighting operations continued for two days. PG&E could still have conducted intelligent risk management in the interest of its own shareholders. • Buck-passing risk is insidious because it can become so pervasive and exacerbate so many other risks.

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Should Success Be Based On Results or Politics?

The Idolbuster

But Ressler and Thompson present a way to make it possible, with a website filled with business cases and slide decks to help you justify a radical change to the way your company operates. In one example, Suntell, a company that sells loan risk management software adopted a ROWE strategy. 2010 Jan;95(1):21. [ii]

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"I'd Like My Life Back" -- a lesson for CEOs in building an organization that listens to warnings

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Dave Yarin: It was April 2010, and a Fortune 500 CEO would utter one of the most ill advised yet memorable lines in corporate history. Before the 2010 disaster, Hayward was described as "unassuming and modest." Auditing/monitoring and risk assessment – risk assessment is the "radar screen" of threats to your company.

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