How’s Your Appetite?

How’s Your Appetite?

Articles How’s Your Appetite? John Drew, OnPoint Risk Advisors Perhaps you’ve heard this one before… “The best diet is the one you stick to.” Actually a pretty sound mantra. Unlike all those catch-all quick-fixes out there, it works because we all have different...
Language Lessons

Language Lessons

Articles Language Lessons John Drew, OnPoint Risk Advisors A while back, on LinkedIn, a banking peer posed an interesting thought: Is the ‘reputation’ of an organization, in and of itself, a risk? It’s a great question. One that rightly generated great discussion. I...
Risk Lingo

Risk Lingo

Articles Risk Lingo John Drew, OnPoint Risk Advisors How many of you know more than one spoken language? (emoji doesn’t count) More than two languages? Or three? And of those, how many can you speak well enough to be humorous? Ordering breakfast in another language is...
What Goes Up Doesn’t Necessarily Come Down

What Goes Up Doesn’t Necessarily Come Down

Articles What Goes Up Doesn’t Necessarily Come Down John Drew, OnPoint Risk Advisors You may have heard me recently compare risk to gravity. So it may amuse you that, from my own observation, Risk ‘communication’ seems to defy gravity. Here’s what I mean: What...
Should You Invest in Risk?

Should You Invest in Risk?

Articles Should You Invest in Risk? John Drew, OnPoint Risk Advisors Investing is risky. By its very nature it almost has to be, right? So, investing IS risk… But what about actually investing IN Risk? (the irony…) What’s the antithesis of investment…? Sunk costs?...
Beyond Risk Management

Beyond Risk Management

Articles Beyond Risk Management John Drew, OnPoint Risk Advisors When someone would ask what I do for a living, I’ve always said that I’m in Risk Management. And it’s unfortunate… It’s an unfortunate classification… And it’s unfortunate that so many business leaders...