by Mike Cobb | Oct 18, 2016 | Risk and Uncertainty
A couple of weeks ago I posted a short article on how companies can prepare for and respond to supply chain disruptions (Hanjin Revisited). This was a follow-up to an earlier article on the Hanjin bankruptcy and its impact on businesses globally (Hanjin and Turmoil in...
by Mike Cobb | Oct 3, 2016 | Risk and Uncertainty
September 30th. It’s been a month now since Hanjin Shipping filed for bankruptcy. So what has happened over the past month? A lot … but not enough. A little over a week into the chaos U.S. Bankruptcy Judge John Sherwood granted the company provisional protection from...
by Mike Cobb | Sep 12, 2016 | Risk and Uncertainty
On the last day of August, Hanjin Shipping, the world’s seventh largest container carrier, representing almost 8% of all of the United States trans-Pacific trade volume and 3% of global shipping capacity, filed for protection in South Korea’s bankruptcy courts and was...
by Mike Cobb | Mar 2, 2016 | Risk and Uncertainty
What can we learn about leadership from our childhood experiences? How might our early life lessons shape our tendency to take risks and innovate as entrepreneurs and business leaders? Growing up in Atlanta during the 1960’s was considerably different from today. My...
by Mike Cobb | Feb 10, 2016 | Risk and Uncertainty
Friday, March 17, 2000. By all accounts it was a typical day. The week was winding down and preparations were being made for the weekend. There was a lot to talk about in the news. The US elections were heating up in the lead-up to what would prove to be one of the...
by Mike Cobb | Jan 27, 2016 | Risk and Uncertainty
It was the one question that I had not anticipated. The answer changed my outlook on how to do business. In the early stages of my consulting practice, I was meeting the chairman of the board of a struggling medical products venture. Mentally rehearsing my successes...
