“Accidents are no longer accidents at all. They are failures of risk management.” — Sidney Dekker Copy Share Image
The benefits provided by worker participation are twofold. Quality is improved because of the finding and fixing of a very large number… — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
Possibly the biggest issue, however, is that performance appraisals focus managers attention on precisely the wrong thing: individual people. As W. Edwards… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
You cannot allow any of your people to avoid the brutal facts. If they start living in a dream world, it's going… — James Mattis Copy Share Image
The old-fashioned idea of a good manager is one who is supposed to know all the answers, can solve every problem himself,… — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
Most corporate mission statements are worthless. They consist largely of pious platitudes such as: "We will hold ourselves to the highest standards… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
Then it becomes necessary to get the field organisation to accept the help provided. This is normally the role of the Change… — Douglas McGregor Copy Share Image
My client loved risk. Risk, I had learned, was a commodity in itself. Risk could be canned and sold like tomatoes. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Management is a curious phenomenon. It is generously paid, enormously influential, and significantly devoid of common sense — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
Given the central role of effective, firmwide risk management in maintaining strong financial institutions, it is clear that supervisors must redouble their… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
The key to risk management is never putting yourself in a position where you cannot live to fight another day. — Richard S. Fuld, Jr Copy Share Image
“Central banks across the globe have been hesitant to recognize bitcoin as a form of money, and Tuesday’s vanishing act isn’t helping.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Regulatory compliance is critical to managing risk.” — Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth Copy Share Image
“A study of project and risk management in software projects in the public sector found that an informal partnership between the project’s… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Quality, productivity, and innovation can be significantly increased if companies provide all employees with practical tools for exploiting potential information — William Hunter Copy Share Image
Being a Navy SEAL and sniper taught me all about risk management. Take away all the risk variables under your control and… — Brandon Webb Copy Share Image
“every entrepreneur must master the art of risk management, the truth of why a few are successful stands here” — Anath Lee Wales Copy Share Image
“Being able to be repeated controllably is one key element in risk management.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“As described in the literature and experienced in practice, governance is a multi-dimensional concept, encompassing elements of organizational stewardship, accountability, risk management,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Managers must have the discipline not to keep pulling up the flowers to see if their roots are healthy. — Robert Townsend Copy Share Image
Risk managers and investment bankers and actually, all kinds of investors took on more risk than they expected. So there was a… — Robert F. Engle Copy Share Image
“Time, Cost, and Scope do not run a project; the invisible chains of risk associated with them do. To manage the project,… — Nikhil Dhand Copy Share Image
There is a simple way of avoiding excess risk-taking by the managers of our financial institutions. It is to make it a… — Paul Collier Copy Share Image
