Risk

From Home Runs to Bunts: The Real Reason Managers Get Nothing Done

Rob Asghar | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Leadership, Business, Management, Risk, Leadership Training Programs, Leaders, Executive Coaching, Starting a Business, Business News
Rob Asghar

Catch most managers in a moment of honesty, and they'll admit they feel less effective than they'd expected to be. The reason, they'll say, is that they're too busy to do the big things they'd hoped to do.

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Against All Odds

Paul Spector, M.D. | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Mindfulness, Risk Factors, Intelligence, Emotional Intelligence, Decision-Making, Bad Decisions, Good Decisions, Gps-Soul, Risk, Healthy Living News
Paul Spector, M.D.

Certainty is seductive. But the reality is that we live in a sea of uncertainty. While the complexity of the kaleidoscopic forces that drive our choices is overwhelming, there are things we can do in order to encourage better decision-making.

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Dangerous Playgrounds Are Good for Your Kids

Darell Hammond | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Playground, Risk Perception, Helicopter Parents, Children's Health, Children, Risk, Children's Safety, Safety, Playgrounds, Parents News
Darell Hammond

We as a country have taken playground safety too far. We have crossed the line from common sense to that murky "What if?" territory in which we imagine every conceivable accident.

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What 'The Artist' Can Teach Us About Prayer

Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: King David, David Denby, Silence, Prayer, The Artist, New Yorker, Risk, Prayer and Meditation, Judaism, Religion News
Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater

Prayer comes from the world of our ancestors, who both had less information and knowledge of the universe than we have today, and more time to focus on the inner workings of the soul and spirit.

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From Candy Land To Monopoly: Board Games Getting Movie Buzz

The Huffington Post | Crystal Bell | Posted 04.13.2012

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"Battleship," Peter Berg's sci-fi naval war adventure, is loosely based on the beloved Hasbro game of the same name. Well, actually, the film has very...

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Sex, Teens and Risk: Conservatives Have It Wrong

James Peron | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Religious Right, Teenage Sexuality, Conservatives, Abstinence Only, Sex Education, Risk, Abstinence Only Sex-Ed, Birth Control, Sex Ed, Tennessee Sex Education, Sex, Abstinence Education, Contraception, Condoms, Politics News
James Peron

Abstinence-only programs don't exist "for the kids," or because of risks. They exist almost wholly because Republicans -- and Democrats in Tennessee -- are trying to placate a religious minority, even if it means exposing teens to greater harms.

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Nukes and Tanning Beds: How the Same Risk Can Feel SO Different

David Ropeik | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Tanning Beds, Melanoma, Skin Cancer, Fukushima, Risk Perception, Cancer, Radiation, Nuclear Power, Risk, Green News
David Ropeik

Risk is a feeling, a subjective interpretation of the facts and numbers through a set of subconscious instinctive and emotional filters that can make the same facts seem more scary, or less.

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Risk-Taking Women Will Destroy World, Say Male Economists

The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Risk Taking, Women, Boards of Directors, Women on Boards, Women in Business, Risk Management, Women Executives Take Risks, Women Executives, Businesswomen, Risk, Business News

In the male-female divide, women are the careful ones, right? The ones more likely than men to buckle their seatbelts, less likely to funnel whiskey a...

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ROI on Design and Risk Reduction

Soren Petersen | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Design, Return on Investment, Business, Management, Risk, Business Advice, Business Strategies, Return of Investment Strategies, Business News
Soren Petersen

Usually one knows only 5 percent of what is needed at the stage where 70 percent of the product's cost is determined. Fortunately, there is some predictability, since return on investment and risk go hand in hand.

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PHOTOS: 9 Hotels On The Edge

Oyster | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Getaway, Hotels, Afraid, Jamaica, Retreat, Vacation, Slidepollajax, Edge, Risk, Travel News
Oyster

These nine hotels, from a cliff-side sanctuary to an uber-luxe mountaintop retreat, will test travelers who are even a little scared of heights.

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mHealth: My Father's First Cellphone and the Evolution of Risk

Dr Layla McCay | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Cell Phones, Mhealth, Health, Safety, Mobile Phones, Regulation, Innovation, Data Security, Health Care, Risk, Mobile Health, Mobile Health Care, Health News, Healthy Living News
Dr Layla McCay

Cellphones are being used in prevention, diagnosis and treatment, from prenatal to the last years of life, right across the spectrum of care. In health and development, "mHealth" (short for "mobile health") is the new black.

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An Investor Protection Plan

Dan Solin | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Portfolio Advice, Financial Portfolios, Portfolios, Finances, Risk, Financial Advice, Investors, Video, Business News
Dan Solin

Every investor should be concerned with the risk of their portfolio. Yet, in my experience, few are. Whenever I use the words "standard deviation," which is a measure of risk, I can see a glazed look come over my prospective client.

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The Inequity Leading Young Women To Make Dangerous Decisions

| Jessica Grose | Posted 03.02.2012

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By Jessica Grose (Click here for original story) There's a new study from the Journal of Adolescent Health that shows that teenage girls whose prim...

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Living Like a Champion

Nikki Stone | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Nikki Stone, Olympian, Athlete, Diet, Motivation, Wellness, Sarah Burke, Success, Dreams, Inspiration, Health, Exercise, Accomplishment, Fears, Goals, Risk, Healthy Living News
Nikki Stone

Today, your challenge is to ask yourself if you want to lead a life with no change and no excitement, or do you want to take the chance to find some excitement and exhilaration and really live? Do you want to look back on your life and have regrets for not living to your full potential?

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Goldman, Morgan Stanley Say Clawbacks Will Affect Executive Pay Too

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 02.08.2012

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Two major Wall Street firms say their executives will face the same repercussions for misconduct as everybody else at the company -- but it's not clea...

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Fear Is Momentary, Regrets Are Forever

Joe Robinson | Posted 04.18.2012

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Joe Robinson

Fear is momentary; regrets are forever. The reality is that fears that paralyze us today will be long forgotten tomorrow, and we'll be left with the after-effects of opting for safety -- life unexperienced, progress unmade, a truckful of regret.

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Mission Impossible: Mark 11:1-11

Reverend William E. Flippin, Jr. | Posted 03.22.2012

Read More: Mission Teams, Disciples, Risk, Christianity, Mission Impossible, Religion News
Reverend William E. Flippin, Jr.

Being on Christ's "impossible mission force" may involve "glamour duty" -- teaching, preaching and healing. Or it may involve "garbage duty" -- perhaps as a Minister of Recycling or Minister of Maintenance.

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Uncertainty and the Rewards of Discovery

Lorie Karnath | Posted 03.16.2012

Read More: Science, Exploration, Uncertainty, Risk, Discovery, Impact News
Lorie Karnath

For many, risk is viewed solely as a threat, to be avoided, but to steer clear of risk also means that one eludes the opportunities that risk engenders.

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How Government Leaders Can Take More Risks

Tom Fox | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Peter Sims, Risk, Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge From Small Discoveries, Decisions, Federal Leaders, Politics News
Tom Fox

Senior government leaders appear hesitant to make decisions or convert risks into opportunity even when presented with data that justifies a certain decision. Why?

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Thinking, Fast and Slow... About Staying Alive -- What's Missing From Kahneman's Classic

David Ropeik | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Optimism Bias, Affect Heuristic, Heuristics and Biases, Risk Perception, Psychology, Availability Heuristic, Loss Aversion, Kahneman, Mind, Decision Making, Fischhoff, Risk, Finucane, Lichetenstein, Slovic, Books News
David Ropeik

If you want to know what goes on in your brain as you "think", and you can only read one of the flood of recent books on the subject, you can not do better than Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow.

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What Puts High Achievers at Risk?

Lisa Arie | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Success, Leadership, Vista Caballo, Vulnerability, Motivational-Success, Risk, Career Advice, Risk Management, Career Risk, Business News
Lisa Arie

It is critical to the careers and business success of high achievers to be able to connect to and understand how to use their sense of vulnerability. You are at risk until you engage this critical sense.

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Alexander Eichler

Report Highlights Legality Of Lehman Brothers 'Gut Feeling' Business

HuffingtonPost.com | Alexander Eichler | Posted 12.09.2011

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In the years leading up to its collapse, Lehman Brothers nearly doubled its risk and took a scattershot approach to valuing its assets, according to a...

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Best of TEDTalks 2011, #13: Addicted to Risk

Naomi Klein | Posted 12.08.2011

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Naomi Klein

As a culture we have been far too willing to gamble with things that are precious and irreplaceable.2011-12-08-kleinienijfiejffefe.jpg

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Naomi Klein On The Addiction To Risk

Posted 12.08.2011

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jQuery(function($) { $('#ad_sharebox_260x60').prepend(''); }); In this special year-end collaboration, TED and The Huffington Post are ex...

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Making the Right Call: When Protecting Kids Is Good Business and Good Law

Sheila Tendy | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Penn State, Policy, Sexual Abuse, Children, Joe Paterno, Risk, Armchair Detective, Crime News
Sheila Tendy

There is a tremendous opportunity to learn from the horrific allegations coming from the Penn State incident to better protect our children from pedophiles who use their reputation and professional standing to sexually abuse children.

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