Month: January 2009

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Understanding Risk: A Core Competency of Leaders

Take this simple test:  Which of the following has the greater risk of causing death in North America today? Being eaten by a shark or being killed by falling airplane parts? Being poisoned or having tuberculosis? Having leukemia or having emphysema? From homicide or from suicide? From all accidents combined or from a stroke? While […]

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Building Personal and Organizational Resilience

“Resilient” is an appropriate descriptor  frequently and perhaps justifiably applied to successful people and organizations. While resilience is obviously learned or acquired from experience, the question arises as to whether it is also a set of skills that can be taught? Resilience is the capacity to “bounce back”  after disappointment, setbacks or even disasters. It […]

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When Genius Fails

What makes even the brightest people sometimes squander their gifts  in amazing, breathtaking acts of stupidity? Consider the following rear-view mirror assessments of the 2008 market meltdown: “What the hell were we thinking? These things were way too complicated!”    – Jamie Dimon, CEO, J.P. Morgan Chase, October, 2008 “I am in shocked disbelief at our […]

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