| Risks are what go wrong when you are not looking. | | | | difference between life and death, in your product, |
| Stupid things happen like bounced checks, losing your | | | | business, department, life or job. Far too many |
| best customers or best people when you are | | | | people are taking far greater risks than they may be |
| blindsided, which is why you need to create peripheral | | | | aware of. |
| vision in your business so you are not blindsided. You | | | | Or to say this in a less business phrase, you need to |
| need a perspective of business under the microscope | | | | get real! Which is why sticking out your balance sheet |
| and to have lived to tell the tale. When you develop | | | | is no more comfortable than a visit to your doctor, |
| insights for a common sense approach to what | | | | but it is every bit as important. Even if it is bad news |
| people make complex, as companies grow, you can | | | | (maybe especially) you need to know. Business |
| identify and solve problems easier than you think. | | | | information is the hidden pathway you travel toward |
| If you think of managing risks and rewards as an | | | | your goals. Would you like a spotlight? |
| integral part of your business, what originally sounded | | | | Sometimes the hardest part of the process is just to |
| like scary terms: enterprise risk management (ERM), | | | | get started or to revisit how effective your existing |
| operational risk management (ORM) or contingency | | | | risk management, strategy, budgeting and |
| planning begin to make sense as and can be | | | | contingency programs have been. Wherever your |
| integrated into normal business operations at all levels | | | | efforts are in these areas, extensive information, |
| of your business as it grows. | | | | including entire ERM manuals are available on the |
| This approach of sticking out your balance sheet and | | | | internet. Common sense and insight can bring this to |
| coughing gets you what you need to know in time | | | | live for your benefit. |
| for needed procedures which can mean the | | | | |