Yearly Archives: 2020

Externalizing our data? You must be joking … When I was a young project manager in a small but famous finance house, about 25 years ago, I once dared to pretend that risk management operations and applications would be standardized in the future – and therefore, possibly, also externalized. Everyone in the room appreciated my […]

Gen Z and Millennials, the real champions of survival? Is COVID-19 the watershed moment in the lives of Gen Z? Despite the significant challenges and unfavorable conditions, we’re facing today, how are the millennials and Gen-Z – soon to become the first line of defense for most organizations – approaching the “new normal”? How have […]

With all of us now stuck at home due to COVID-19, parts of our days have certainly changed. Boundaries between work life and personal life have blurred, creating high expectations in the long workdays, and causing the daily an emotional distress that employees (and individuals) are experiencing become what sometimes is called ‘productivity’! For businesses, […]

As health risks due to COVID-19 dominate the headlines, many parts of the world are also experiencing an explosion of natural disasters, from hurricanes to heat waves and deadly wildfires in my home state of California. Instead of stay-in-place orders, these are forcing evacuations, and reminding us that there will always be risk. As a […]

As someone who typically works from home when not traveling, the impact of COVID-19 office closures has had limited impact on me to this point. For those who are accustomed to working in an office environment, the impact has often been profound. Meeting challenges require adjustment, both personal as well as family adjustments. Personal Adjustments […]

With all of us now stuck at home due to COVID-19, parts of our days have certainly changed. The long periods of isolation, the separation, the losses, financial instability, the daily stress and the emotional distress some of us are experiencing is pushing down what I call our human resources. But organizations can come out […]

Nobody has good things to say about a pandemic, and rightly so. The suffering it has caused, and is still causing, is enormous and the hardship that people, businesses and nations are going through cannot be understated. Every challenge though, brings opportunities that otherwise wouldn’t be met, and the COVID-19 pandemic is no different in […]