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StrategyDriven Launches Operational Risk Management Resource Forum

Strategy Driven

StrategyDriven is proud to announce the launch of a risk management resource forum; providing innovative thought leadership and collaboration opportunities to help leaders effectively address their most pressing operational risks. Complimentary Resource – Operational Risk Management.

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StrategyDriven White Paper Advises Leaders on Preventing Catastrophic Industrial Accidents

Strategy Driven

StrategyDriven released Preventing Catastrophic Industrial Accidents , a white paper revealing how high-risk industry leaders can reduce their significant event risk exposure through the cost effective adaptation of key aspects of the U.S. StrategyDriven Risk Management Forum.

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How Jamie Dimon Became a Risk Factor

Harvard Business Review

What''s missing, though, is something like this: CEO Risk: Much of JPMorgan Chase''s excellent performance relative to its peers in recent years can be attributed to its Chairman and CEO, who has proved to be a uniquely valuable combination of careful risk manager and hard-driving business leader.

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 4 of 4

Strategy Driven

My client (a different chemical company) later had a similar explosion. We therefore mounted a full-scope crisis management initiative that focused heavily on after-the-crisis help for the victims and their families. Learn more about Hank Moore and The Business Treeâ„¢ by visiting his website, www.HankMoore.com.

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Leading in a World of Resource Constraints and Extreme Weather

Harvard Business Review

The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes. McKinsey, for example, recently outlined the “new organizational capabilities” that chemical companies should develop to deal with frequent oil price shocks.

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7 Ways to Improve Operations Without Sacrificing Worker Safety

Harvard Business Review

Needed repairs and upgrades were delayed, worker training postponed, and risk assessments overlooked. The culmination was an incident at an insecticide plant in LaPorte, Texas, where, as a result of a basic process safety management failure , an extremely toxic chemical—methyl mercaptan—was released and two workers were overcome.

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Talent Management: Boards Give Their Companies an "F"

Harvard Business Review

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. Corporate directors identified talent management as their single greatest strategic challenge. What would this leadership look like over time? chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products). Talent management'