Risk Matters I started my "professional" career in a financial services firm that focused on risk. Risk mitigation was a 24-hour 7-day-a-week job for everyone there. It didn't need someone shouting …
Failure Comes With The Job
Are you trying something new? Say it with me: "failure comes with the job. " Maybe you know that already. Perhaps you spent your career taking risks and capitalizing on other people being risk …
Practice Risk Reversal
Take a moment to think about someone else Our "ask" become much more powerful when we take the time to reverse the risk from the person we ask back to ourselves. To do this effectively, you have to …
Lead Hard. Lean In.
Take a few arrows; it's worth it I know you do it better. If there is one thing that both you and I know, it's that you do it better than they do. That email you see that person send, or that …
Explosions!
Volatility is exciting. Volatility is all the beginner "sees:" the savageness of a fight, the flash of a dance, the motion in the ocean. "You could triple earnings in the stock market!" One change …
Small Risk,Please
If you do work without a bit of edge, it's a form of hiding. It doesn't need to overshare (also hiding), but in the same vein, doing anything that doesn't take a little chance, a little risk or a …