These days, who doesn’t travel with their laptop? But commonality doesn’t make it inherently safe for your sensitive information that’s stored in the device. In fact, traveling with your laptop is inherently unsecure.

Whether you’re traveling for business or to visit family this holiday season, here are some ways to protect your laptop and your personal data:

• Get a cable lock for your laptop. It’s a great way to deter a potential thief, especially if there are lots of people around.
• Register with a

It’s been stated more than once that WWIII will most likely be cyber-based, such as dismantling a country’s entire infrastructure via cyber weapons. And don’t think for a moment this doesn’t mean murdering people.

A report at bits.blogs.nytimes.com notes that foreign hackers have cracked into the U.S. Department of Energy’s networks 150 times; they’ve stolen blueprints and source code to our power grid as well. Some say they have the capability to shut down the U.S.

The bits.blogs.nytimes.com arti

These 3 Management Styles Belong in the Past

Source:

Paolo Gallo

What assumptions am I making, that I’m not aware I am making, that give me what I see?

This powerful question, taken from Benjamin Zander’s book, The Art of Possibility, has been stuck in my mind for a while. Traditional management thinking is based around three fundamental assumptions.

First, that organisations need a top-down approach to strategy and objective setting; second, that the role of management and human resources is to mea

The Most Misunderstood Job Titles in 2015

BUSINESS INSIDER

Your parents have no idea what you do. Some of the most popular new professions like UI Designer, Data Scientist and Social Media Manager are also the most misunderstood. Based on LinkedIn’s 2015 global study, Dylan Roach and Rachel Gillett of Business Insider compiled a list of the 15 most misunderstood job titles, and how to explain them to your parents.

You’ve probably heard of the gofundme.com site, where all sorts of stories are posted of people seeking donations. Some are tragic, others are trite. You may be touched by a particular story, perhaps one in which an entire family is killed in a house fire.

You click the “Donate Now” button and donate $50. So just how do you know that family who died in the fire really existed?

Gofundme.com and similar sites are loaded with “campaigns,” just tons of them. Think of the logistics involved if these si

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TPP, WTO, NAFTA: The Most Brazen Corporate Power Grab in American History

Source:

 Chris Hedges

Truth Dig

6 November 2015

The release Thursday of the 5,544-page text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership—a trade and investment agreement involving 12 countries comprising nearly 40 percent of global output—confirms what even its most apocalyptic critics feared.

“The TPP, along with the WTO [World Trade Organization] and NAFTA [North American Free Trade Agreement], is the most braz

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Quotations on corporate strategy, business strategy, strategic planning, portfolio management

See strategy  not as an act of war (Michael Porter's Five Forces) but as an act of customer bonding (Love)

Arnoldo Hax , Enrique Suarez

Execution is not the problem; aligning exection with strategy is!

Arnoldo Hax

Operational excellence is not strategy

Enrique Suarez

Processes are not strategy

Arnoldo Hax

It is important to consider a business at two levels; its strategy and its activ

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www.12manage.com

It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out nor more doubtful of success nor more dangerous to handle than to initiate a new order of things

Machiavelli 1446-1507, Italian statesman and philosopher

The real problem is what to do with problem solvers after the problem is solved

Gay Talese 1932-, American (Italian-born) journalist

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. The

Quotes on Ethics and Responsibility

Source:

Enrique Suarez &

www.12manage.com

A Vision of the future without action is simply a dream. An action without a vision of the future, lacks meaning. A vision of the future with action, can change the world

Enrique Suarez

Albert Einstein used to say "Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value." We in the Western world have valued so much material well-being that we have forgotten about who we really are which has a divine comp

Source:

www.12manage.com

 When I am at Milan, I do as they do at Milan; but when I go to Rome, I do as Rome does

St. Augustine 354-430, Roman theologist and philosopher

Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you will ever regret

Ambrose Bierce

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it

Albert Einstein 1879-1955; German-born American theoretical physicist

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said

Peter F. Drucker 1909-2005, American ma

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Quotes on Knowledge & Intangibles

Quotations on knowledge management, intellectual capital, intangible assets.

Source:

www.12manage.com

The single greatest challenge facing managers in the developed countries of the word is to raise the productivity of knowledge and service works

Peter F. Drucker 1909-2005, American management guru, in Harvard Business Review Nov-Dec 1991

Imagination is more important than knowledge

Albert Einstein 1879-1955; German-born American theoretical

Social Credit and Usury

Originally Posted on November 07, 2014 by:

M. Oliver Heydorn

www.socred.org

One of the most common misunderstandings where Social Credit is concerned is the notion that the Social Credit diagnosis can be adequately summarized along the following lines: "The problem with the existing financial system is that the banks create money out of nothing in the form of bank credit and then proceed to charge interest on the money that they loan out. Unfortunately, they do not crea

LinkedIn is a free service that allows professional people to network with each other. Often, a LinkedIn member will receive an e-mail from another LinkedIn member “inviting” them to join their network. Sometimes, the inviter is someone the recipient doesn’t know, but the recipient will link up anyways. And that’s the problem.

A report at www.secureworks.com says that Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit™ (CTU) researchers discovered 25 phony LinkedIn profiles.

With this particular phony network (

The Age of Finance Capital—and the Irrelevance of Mainstream Economics

Source:

 Prof. Ismael Hossein-Zadeh

Global Research, September 12, 2015

Despite the fact that the manufacturers of ideas have elevated economics to the (contradictory) levels of both a science and a religion, a market theodicy, mainstream economics does not explain much when it comes to an understanding of real world developments. Indeed, as a neatly stylized discipline, economics has evolved into a corrupt, obfuscating and usel

The Strategic Management Frameworks and the Delta Model: Putting Customers Before Products

Special PowerPoint Presentation for All Global Risk  Community Members

By:

Enrique R. Suarez

Master of Education & International Development

Harvard University

International Business Strategy Consultant & Professor
Former Harvard i-Lab Student Advisor

You can download the Delta Model PowerPoint Presentation below:

Frameworks_Delta2015_H.pdf

Contact Information

If you want to implement the Delta Model in your organiza

Ajay Kumar Jhingan, our member and International Speaker/Trainer in Corporate and Retail Banking, is preparing his new course in Global Risk Academy - the Course on Drafting of Loan Documentation (Basics).  The idea came after many questions and requests from his students both in live trainings that he facilitates and in online course The Fundamentals of Credit analytics that he recently delivered for Global Risk Academy.

In this article he explains the importance of applying basic knowledge a

Automakers and Their Dark, Deadly Conspiracies

Source:

Yves Engler

CounterPunch

28 October 2015

Over the past eighteen months two of the world’s largest automakers have been found responsible for deadly conspiracies. But, recent revelations can’t compete with the industry’s previous scandals.

Last month Volkswagen was caught rigging millions of its cars emissions testing systems to meet regulatory standards. The German company programmed its turbocharged direct injection diesel engines to activate e

The Pathology of the Rich - Chris Hedges on Reality Asserts Itself 

Source:

Chris Hedges

Published on Dec 5, 2013

On RAI with Paul Jay, Chris Hedges discusses the psychology of the super rich; their sense of entitlement, the dehumanization of workers, and mistaken belief that their wealth will insulate them from the coming storms.

You can watch the video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6unS2JF8TA

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Does Evil Exist? 

The university professor challenged his students with this question. Did God create everything that exists? A student bravely replied, "Yes, he did!" 

"God created everything? The professor asked. 

"Yes sir", the student replied. 

The professor answered, "If God created everything, then God created evil since evil exists, and according to the principal that our works define who we are then God is evil". The student became quiet before such an answer. The

Noam Chomsky (2014) "How to Ruin an Economy; Some Simple Ways"

Source:

Noam Chomsky

Published on Feb 12, 2014

Noam Chomsky spoke at Third Boston Symposium on Economics on February 10th 2014, sponsored by the Northeastern University Economics Societyhttp://www.northeastern.edu/econsocie... in Boston, MA.

Chomsky argued that certain factors, among them cutting federal funding for research and development and the growing gap between the richest 1 percent and everybody else, have led to the country's cu