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Management Zone

ARE YOU A GAMBLER?

Peter de Jager

Do we gamble? There’s only one way to answer that question. Yes. All the time. From the moment we wake up in the morning, until we wake up the next morning. We gamble all the time.

Gambling isn’t just “games” or “recreation.” When we get in a car, or plane, we’re gambling all will go well, and that we’ll arrive safe. When we take out a mortgage, the “fixed” or “variable” decision is firmly ensconced in the world of risk management and, hence, in the world of gambling. How good are we at this? How well do we understand risk management?

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Insights

Green spaces have always played an important role in our society. This is now even more evident, as green spaces have been more clearly identified as a major component not only in resolving our environmental challenges, but also providing solutions to other issues related to health and well-being. – Raymond Carriere, CiB –

Read this article in the May 2013 Infrastructure and Environment issue of Municipal World magazine.

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Feature Profile

Meet Jon Linton – in The Reading Room

JON LINTON is a management consultant specializing in strategic planning and community economic and tourism development. He has worked in this field for nearly 30 years and his clients have been municipalities, economic development organizations, chambers of commerce, destination marketing organizations, provincial and federal government departments and agencies, downtown revitalization organizations, social service agencies, and many other not-for-profit associations with varied mandates and responsibilities, some too bizarre to mention.

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Good Governance Orientation Package for elected officials and municipal staff.

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• 10 of our most popular governance /council orientation articles Click here for a complete listing of articles (page 2);
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