Navigating Risk: Of Sinking the Boat, Missing the Boat, and Rocking the Boat

Posted by Bill - May 18th, 2009

Over at Practically Radical, I’m continuing to make a case I’ve been making for months—that a down economy can be a great opportunity to try something different or start something new. My latest source of inspiration and evidence? A great column by James Surowiecki in The New Yorker, which distinguishes between two types of risks that executives face—trying something that doesn’t work (”sinking the boat”) and not trying something that would have worked (”missing the boat”). To me, though, the real opportunity is to recognize the power of “rocking the boat.”

If I haven’t made you seasick, you can read the full post here.

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