There is nothing wrong with risk aversion.
It is only aversion to reasonable business risk that is a problem. When a business leader complains of excessive risk aversion in his staff, the underlying concerns are frequently personal. Continue reading
Category Archives: Risks
Help Your Customers Get Through This
The best way to get through this crisis is not looking so much at how you are going to survive it, but how you are going to help your customers survive it. Also, the only way through this crisis is through innovation.
Watch this video and learn how.
Contingency Trumps Certainty
Even though Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe now has the power to enact a state of emergency, he has hesitated doing so citing lack of evidence so far for meeting the conditions. Yet lack of evidence and evidence of lack are not the same thing, and you need not make the same mistake in leading your business.
Fear Misplaced
Risk and risk perception are rarely equivalent, but if you lead an organization, yours must be one and the same.
I write this as worldwide cases of coronavirus surpass 10,000, most of which are in China, and are certain to rise. While a frightening pathogen to be sure, the fears that coronavirus has provoked in people in other countries are beyond rational, as are the changes in their behavior.
Return on Human Intelligence
Artificial intelligence and expert systems in business can increase organizational capability, but at the same time, despite hype and promise, they are no silver bullet and can also dumb your organization down.
Into the Fray in Hanoi
There is no percentage in tentativeness. Success in strategic change belongs only to those who step into the fray. My recent visit to Hanoi reminded me of this, and below I explain why.
No Path to Excellence in Market Price
Saving pennies should never justify forgoing dollars of income.
The most successful business people I know never consider cost, and only consider ROI, particularly when hiring people and engaging services.
There is no path to excellence through paying market price. A consistent ROI focus results in rapid growth and success.
Be Unfair and Play Favorites
Fairness is not about equity of treatment. It is about equity of opportunity to exercise one’s talents. You can play favorites and there is nothing wrong with doing so, as long as it is the excellent that you favor.
