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Mediocre people occupying senior Leadership positions is one of the chief reasons for the fiasco and humiliation that organizations like Enron and WorldCom faced.  The practice of recruiting average people at the top is omnipresent and often goes unnoticed until the results begin to surface, which is typically too late for any intervention.

Smart people decisions matter a lot in achieving profitability.  Research indicates that a return on average human asset of 5% is typical in many industries. 

Columbia University has awarded me a Dean's Grant to assess advancements in ERM practice and Risk Governance. This survey is designed to evaluate current and planned advanced practice in ERM Risk Governance. The results from this survey will be used to improve instructional design for ERM students and to provide guidance to students about the skills and competencies needed to prepare for a career in risk management.

Your participation will help advance our instruction and provide participants in

New market entry provides potential opportunities for organizations to grow. But penetrating a market and establishing a new business is fraught with complications and failure. Attempts at entering a new market often fail, in fact, research suggests that for every successful market entry about 4 fail. The reasons for such high failure rates involve timing, scale, competition, capabilities, and predominantly irrational decision making.

The decision to successfully enter a market necessitates deta