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I recently started re-reading Stephen R. Covey's book "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People."  I hadn't read the book in over 15 years and felt that it would be a good refresher at this point in my career.  Early in the book, Mr. Covey begins to dissect the "habits" ...

If I asked you about risk, your first thought might be of insurance, security, safety, or a specialized person that deals with risk at your organization such as a risk management team.  It could even be about personal risks to you such as those faced when investing, parenting, or driving on the...

Many managers are ambivalent about purchasing cards (p-card).  This love, hate relationship with purchasing card programs has the potential to create unplanned risks.  Either a p-card program is too risky to consider or it provides a good outlet to control and monitor small dollar spending...