by Margaret Foulds | Feb 16, 2017 | Business Process Transformation, Leadership, Risk Management
For those of us who own cars, trucks or SUVs and drive them regularly, here’s a short survey to evaluate your risk tolerance. Yes or no, do you: Wait until your brakes fail completely, before having them inspected and serviced? Drive in extreme snow and freezing rain...
by Margaret Foulds | Oct 6, 2016 | Communication, Leadership
Do you find that your interactions with other people – your friends, coworkers, spouse, partner, children and extended family rarely go beyond the superficial? In our busy multi-tasking lives we exchange facts, figures, data, details, 140 characters and emoticons. And...
by Margaret Foulds | Feb 15, 2016 | Communication, Leadership, Risk Management
As a consultant and interim executive I am constantly developing and refining tools and techniques to help my clients become better at what they do. Over the past couple months, as I routinely reconnected with people I had worked with at past clients, I put a question...
by Margaret Foulds | Jan 31, 2016 | Risk Management
As a senior leader or Board member, you may be very familiar with Enterprise Management (ERM). Indeed you may have undergone a lengthy exercise in developing an ERM framework for your organization – identifying risks, considering the potential impacts, evaluating the...
by Margaret Foulds | Jan 18, 2016 | Business Process Transformation
Many Not-for-Profits (NFPs) start out small, and relatively uncomplicated with a single program managed and funded by a handful of donors and volunteers in a local context. However, by choice or by circumstance, few if any remain in that simple state forever. NFPs...
by Margaret Foulds | Jan 8, 2016 | Interim Management
(Originally published on LinkedIn November 6, 2015) Mary Poppins, the fictional character popularized by the 1964 musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney, is widely known and recognized by the young and the young at heart. That film is special to me. I recall...
