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Height Weight Chart - Gauging Your Life Insurance Risk Factors
Health questions and inquiries are common practice amongst life insurance agents and companies. The truth is the healthier lifestyle the prospective life insurance member has, the more benefits and lower premiums they qualify for. Height and weight queries are generally found on all life insurance forms. Whether requesting information online, or going the traditional route and visiting an agent or a life insurance facility, your height and weight will be used to determine what kind of policy you qualify for, and how much you are going to pay in premiums because of that height and weight.
The Dark Side
How well can we manage ourselves, our teams and businesses in a crisis or tough times? Are our actions and behaviours putting us, our people and our businesses at risk? As leaders and managers we are on show and our actions often speak louder than our words. In challenging times this is even more evident. Under pressure cracks may appear and our leadership is put to the test. How do we cope under pressure? What happens to us when we crack? When placed under high levels of pressure, most people will rely on coping mechanisms or their strengths that help them manage in day to day activities, but due to the pressure they can actually become counterproductive tendencies. We refer to these as “risk factors” and they can emerge as our dark side.

The Myth of Entrepreneurial Risk-Taking
Everyone seems to have their own "Top 10 list of entrepreneurial qualities" these days, and risk-taking almost always makes the Top 3. But is this really true? Do savvy entrepreneurs simply throw caution to the wind and fly in the face of danger when it comes to taking risks? Let's examine this "myth of entrepreneurial risk-taking" more closely.
Building Resilience
How to bounce back from the letdowns and life happens situations, 6 steps that work.

How To Protect Your Online Business And Website From Disaster
Everyone who is in business should be doing business online. The potential is just too great to pass on. Even if you have nothing up but a virtual business card posted on a domain name that you own and control you need to have a business presence online. The cost to do so is too little to ignore, and the cost to not do so is too great to ignore. That is vital step number one. Vital step number two. Protect Your Online Business From Disaster by following a few simple common sense steps detailed herein!
What is in a Franchise UFOC
There are 4 parts to a Uniform Franchise Offering Circular. We list them here, along with some things to keep in mind for each section.
Getting Bigger and Better: Managing the TOP 10 Risk Factors for Growing Companies
The framework for addressing the 10 Risk Factors is the Organizational Backbone. The vertebrae of this backbone are a company’s Strategies, Systems and Skills: Strategies set the direction and provide context for the business and its employees. Systems reinforce strategies. They are broadly defined as ‘the way that work gets done’. Skills enable effective execution of systems and adaptability to new systems. Most growing companies find that their Organizational backbone is misaligned – a natural result of high-growth.

New Small Business Loans
What’s the most difficult part of starting a business? Some will say it’s coming up with a winning idea. Others will say that it’s getting the word out about your new company. Personally, I’ve always found the most challenging aspect of starting a company to be finding the financing you need to get your idea off the ground and running. There are a number of avenues out there that you could pursue, so long as you know in what direction to look. If you’re applying for new small business loans, this article will summarize some of the things you need to know before you get started.

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People and Risk
A risky business … Business is risky; the less static the more risk, thus the more successful the business the more risk in must embrace and benefit from. In this article, Lisette Howlett shares her thoughts and experiences in the area of risk and people. Without people you have less risk; but you also have no business. Risk is unavoidable but not insurmountable. Indeed taking your people risk seriously will improve your business; the successful management of risk has a positive impact on business success.

10 Costly Mistakes to Avoid When Buying a Franchise
Many people dream of being their own boss someday, but are afraid of the risks involved. We know that it is impossible to take all the risk out of going into business. In many cases franchising provides a way to minimize the risk, but it can never remove all of it. Franchising methods can be quite complicated, and certainly anyone looking into a franchise quickly learns that there are a large number of factors to be considered. Again and again, I’ve seen people ignore the important warning signs and make Costly Mistakes when buying a franchise. They fall into the same traps that have victimized others before them. As they say, what we don’t learn from history, we are doomed to repeat!

100 Commission Equals Zero Percent Control
Straight (100%) commission plans do a great job of shifting performance risk to the salespeople. While the company may think it is eliminating risk, it may actually be taking on a bigger risk that could threaten the life of the company itself.
The Importance of Risk Management for Business Owners
The most successful business owners have an innate understanding of risk and how to manage it. This article evaluates four different businesses in the context of risk to draw lessons about effective risk management.
Fail Your Way to Success
The selling profession is not generally considered a high-risk profession, yet salespeople face big risks every time they speak to customers and prospects. What do they risk? They risk uncovering the truth. They risk finding out their best customer has just changed the rules of doing business. They risk discovering the prospect with whom they have invested so much time doesn't really qualify as a prospect at all.

The Irony of “Risk” in the Markets
Right now in the markets, there are essentially 2 trades: risk-taking and risk-averting. The risk-taking trade can be summarized as US dollar and Japanese yen down, bonds down, everything else up. Risk-averting is just the opposite. Oh sure, you get the occasional stock that goes down because of blatant corporate mismanagement, but overall stocks will go up if the dollar declines.
Project Planning and Risk Assessment
This article will describe two central issues in project management. Successful projects are built on good plans: unsuccessful ones are often caused by faulty plans. The ability to visualize risk factors and react appropriately is the basis for triumphant success, like the first manned lunar landing, or colossal failure like 9/11. This article looks under the hood of the planning and risk management processes.

Risk Assessment & Analysis Techniques
Risk assessment is an area of concern for all senior executives, but many mid-sized enterprises do not have the skills, processes, or tools to effectively mitigate risks. Instead of reactively ‘fire-fighting’ and dealing with issues as they arise, consider adding simple risk assessment & analysis exercises to your project planning process. Download & customize Demand Metric’s Risk Assessment Tool, Risk Mitigation Checklist, and Risk Analysis (Fishbone) Tool, and add to your skills arsenal.
How to Make a Decision That Sticks Rather Than Gets You Stuck
One of the most frustrating experiences we can all face is how to make effective decisions especially when you feel there is a lot of risk at stake. You wonder how much risk you should take on without putting yourself out on a limb or how much risk you share without looking like you are trying to pass accountability or be too cautious.

Risk Taking - Is It Wise?
When is the right time to take a risk? How can I best evaluate when a risk is worth taking? Iris Barrow provides practical tips and suggestions on how to work out whether taking a risk is sensible or foolhardy.
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