Risk
Coaching Tip No.14 - Should I or Shouldn’t I?
04/02/09 10:28
“There are risks and costs to a program of
action. But they are far less than the long-range
risks and costs of comfortable inaction”
John F Kennedy
What a strange world we live in. On the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s ‘Origin of the Species’ our understanding of evolution is so much more advanced. What is still confusing is how we have managed to develop a society where, in order to perform at the highest levels, we have to work against the biology, neurology and psychology that evolution determined for us.
I can’t remember how I came across it but Seth Godin published an insightful article (FAST Company Magazine 2003) which is just as relevant today. The article was called “A Brief History of Hard Work, Adjusted for Risk” In the piece he contrasts the hard, physical labour our many of our forebears endured with the modern workplace - and a very different type of hard work that this quote demonstrates: Read More...
John F Kennedy
What a strange world we live in. On the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s ‘Origin of the Species’ our understanding of evolution is so much more advanced. What is still confusing is how we have managed to develop a society where, in order to perform at the highest levels, we have to work against the biology, neurology and psychology that evolution determined for us.
I can’t remember how I came across it but Seth Godin published an insightful article (FAST Company Magazine 2003) which is just as relevant today. The article was called “A Brief History of Hard Work, Adjusted for Risk” In the piece he contrasts the hard, physical labour our many of our forebears endured with the modern workplace - and a very different type of hard work that this quote demonstrates: Read More...
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