Risk Taking

Risk-Taking Women Will Destroy World, Say Male Economists

The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Risk Taking, Women, Boards of Directors, Women on Boards, Women in Business, Risk Management, Women Executives Take Risks, Women Executives, Businesswomen, Risk, Business News

In the male-female divide, women are the careful ones, right? The ones more likely than men to buckle their seatbelts, less likely to funnel whiskey a...

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Do Charity Ratings Kill Innovation?

Phillip Haid | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Risk Taking, Public Engagement, Volunteering, Charity, Nonprofits, Innovation, Fundraising, Impact, Impact News
Phillip Haid

This may be blasphemy but I am going to say it. Charity ratings help to kill innovation. Now before the charity ratings organizations go crazy and t...

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What Smokers Can Teach Us

Conor Grennan | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Risk Taking, Inspiration, Motivation, Following Your Dreams, Smokers, Dream Jobs, Impact News
Conor Grennan

If you're constantly preparing to enjoy your life later, you're not enjoying your life. A few years ago, my friend Matt left a very well paid job as a lawyer because he wanted to open a dive shop on a beach in Thailand.

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Growth And Comfort: How Uncomfortable Are You Willing To Be?

Levi Ben-Shmuel | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Risk Taking, Zone of Comfort, Boundaries, Taking Risks, Comfort Zone, Taking a Risk, Taking the Risk, Limits, Your Comfort Zone, The Comfort Zone, Personal Growth, Mindfulness, Self Image, My Comfort Zone, Discomfort, Becoming-Fearless, Home News
Levi Ben-Shmuel

One wonderful thing about staying in the discomfort zone is the chance to explore who we think we are. Instead of running on autopilot, being uncomfortable in a new situation allows us to question self-imposed beliefs and limits.

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Why You Won't Quit

Daniel Gulati | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Career Advice, Success, Psychology, Quitting, Passion, Workplace, Happiness, Risk Taking, Be Happy, Taking a Risk, Taking the Risk, Business Risk Taking, Work Happy, Happy at Work, Emotional Intelligence, Happy Working, Happy in Work, Risk-Taking, Healthy Living News
Daniel Gulati

As I've found out, throwing in the towel on a dead-end job (or a toxic relationship) is actually really difficult, even when you really want to. Here's why.

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Success: Taking Risks To Follow Your Dreams

Deborah Gaines | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Success, Reinvention, Risk Taking, Changing Jobs, Following Your Dreams, Taking Risks, Follow Your Dreams, Follow Your Heart, Changing Careers, Achieving Goals, How to Succeed, Risky Job Change, Becoming-Fearless, Home News
Deborah Gaines

I would urge you to follow your heart. Take risks, big ones. Even if it means acting like a complete idiot.

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Fear Is Momentary, Regrets Are Forever

Joe Robinson | Posted 04.18.2012

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Joe Robinson

Fear is momentary; regrets are forever. The reality is that fears that paralyze us today will be long forgotten tomorrow, and we'll be left with the after-effects of opting for safety -- life unexperienced, progress unmade, a truckful of regret.

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No, Really! Whatever Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Risk Taking, Failure, Regret, Current Directions in Psychological Science, Mark D. Seery, Trauma, Becoming-Fearless, Resilience, Home News
Barbara & Shannon Kelley

Which is worse: coming up against one of life's Epically Awful Moments only to find all of your friends spewing some tired old cliche, or attempting to comfort someone who's just endured an Epically Awful Moment of her own using the only thing you can come up with -- the same cliche?

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Innovation Failure Is a Learning Experience

Robert F. Brands | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Risk Taking, Innovation, Failure, Failure Management, Npd, Business News
Robert F. Brands

Nearly every attempt at success is met with failures along the way, and properly managing those failures can actually benefit the Innovation process. ...

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Why Women Need to Be the Ones Occupying Wall Street

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: The-Feminine-Aspect, Risk Taking, Gender Differences, Catalyst, Occupy Wall Street, Dr. Judy Rosener, Corporate Greed, Power, Elizabeth Lesser, Power Inequities, The Masculine Aspect, Women News
Barbara & Shannon Kelley

What's the Occupy Wall Street movement -- an ongoing, multi-city protest against corporate greed, cronyism and inequity -- got to do with gender politics, you ask? I say: everything.

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Blessed Be the Risk Takers

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 12.02.2011

Read More: Women Take Risks, Women Risk Taking, Risk Taking, Risk Taking Behavior, When to Take Risks, Career Money, Women News
Barbara & Shannon Kelley

The minute we realize we're afraid to do something new, that's precisely when we should jump out of the proverbial plane.

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Stockbrokers More Competitive, Willing To Take Risks Than Psychopaths: Study

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: Psychopathic Personality, Mental Illness, Risk Taking, Stock Traders, Psychopaths, Video, Mental Health, Pathology, Wall Street, Stockbrokers, Psychology, Psychopathy, Risk, Business News

Anyone who's watched the wild fluctuations of the stock market this summer may have suspected that something other than cold, dispassionate rationalis...

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Live Like Your Life Depends On It

Jen Sincero | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: Risk Taking, Small Business, Lifestyle, Inspirational, Entrepreneurship, Decision-Making, Choice, Business News
Jen Sincero

You must go after the things you desire like your life depends on it, because guess what? Your life does depend on it. The life you truly want to live does.

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The Dark Side of the Political Personality Redux: Weiner, Schwarzenegger, and Edwards

Joel Weinberger | Posted 08.07.2011

Read More: Risk Taking, Narcissists, Anthony Weiner, Sexual Admiration, Breaking Political News, Psychology, Power, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Motivation, False Self, Politics, Politics News, Political Psychology, Hyprocrisy, Political Personality, John Edwards, Politics News
Joel Weinberger

Both Schwarzenegger and Weiner are attracted to risk or they would not have chosen the professions they did. Nor would they have engaged in the behaviors that are the subject of this column.

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Out Of Control: Why Adults Need To Lose It More Often

Joe Robinson | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Competence, Letting Go, Don't Miss Your Life, Foolishness, Power of Experiences, Control Freak, Fun, Pema Chodren, Self-Determination, Fulfillment, Alan Watts, Autonomy, Risk-Taking, Work Life, Work Life Balance, The Balanced Life, Life Work Balance, Life, Inspiration, Play, Work, Work Balance, Healthy Living News
Joe Robinson

Being out of control in the service of learning, fun and growth, oddly enough, places you in control of your life, because you are self-determining its content.

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How To Deal With A Bad Board Member

Steve Blank | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Risk Taking, Advisory Board, Board Member, Board of Directors, Startups, Entrepreneurs, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Job Creation, Risk, Silicon Valley, Small Business America, Business News
Steve Blank

Tied at the hip, VC's and entrepreneurs take large risks together. VC's invest in startups with minimal tangible assets and no certainty about the product's viability, market size or customer adoption. Entrepreneurs face all that, and add one more risk to their list: the bad board member.

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The Hidden Motivator Of Regret: It's What You Don't Do That Haunts You

Joe Robinson | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: New Year's Resolutions, Regret, Inspiration, Regret Motivation, Career Regret, Life-Balance Inspiration, Regret Inspiration, Procrastination, Work-Life Balance, Life Balance, Motivation, Risk-Taking, Healthy Living News
Joe Robinson

It turns out that the biggest regrets come not from what you do but from what you didn't do -- an opportunity unpursued, things left unsaid, life unexperienced.

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For Wall Street: A Loyalty Oath -- to Main Street

Carla Seaquist | Posted 05.25.2011

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Carla Seaquist

If Main Street takes another shellacking from Wall Street, expect a revolution mounted by Main Street, one that will make the Tea Party's anger seem, in comparison, tepid.

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Conjoined Parachuting

James M. Clash | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Risk Taking, Adventure, Felix Baumgartner, Airplane, Red Bull, Parachuting, Tandem Jump, Free Fall, Joe Kittinger, Skydive Deland, Guinness Book of World Records, Travel News
James M. Clash

Preparing for one's first skydive was a daunting proposition...once upon a time.

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Just Do It--Shaping the New Financial System

José Viñals | Posted 05.25.2011

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José Viñals

Fearful financial markets, an uncertain growth outlook, fiscal anxieties, long unemployment lines....no other financial crisis since the Great Depress...

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Risk Vs. Fear: Safe Is Sorry

Joe Robinson | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Risk Taking, Work Life Balance, Work-Life Balance, The Balanced Life, Taking Risks, Becoming-Fearless, Work/Life Balance, Home News
Joe Robinson

It's a human paradox: In your brain every day the forces of fear and safety are hard at work trying to keep you in your bunker and squelch your craving for novelty, self-determination and freedom.

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Toto, We're Not in Kansas Anymore: Exploring the Post-tornado Contours of the Financial System

Laura Kodres | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Risk Taking, Multilateral Cooperation | Tagged: Macrofinancial Linkages, Systemic Collapse, International Monetary Fund, Financial Reform, Financial Sector Supervision, Economic Crisis, Imf, Deleveraging, Financial System Risk, Leverage, Financial Sector Reform, Emerging Markets, Financial Regulation, Financial Supervision, Advanced Economies, Banks, Global Financial System, Nonbanks, Systemic Risk, Contagion, Macroprudential Regulation, Financial Crisis, Business News
Laura Kodres

Just as a tornado in Kansas transplanted Dorothy and, her dog, Toto, from familiar comforts to the unknown land of Oz, the global crisis has led many ...

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Are You Choosing Unhappy Over Uncertain?

Mike Robbins | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Risk Taking, Change, Taking Risks, Life Change, Life Changes, Becoming-Fearless, Happiness, Risk, Home News
Mike Robbins

Change is a funny thing. Most of us seek it and fear it at the same time.

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Notes of a Temporary Ex-pat #5: In Praise of Ex-Pats

W. Hunter Roberts | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Risk Taking, Classical Music, Budapest-Hungary, Expatriates, Creative Life, Danube, The Inner Life, Healthy Living News
W. Hunter Roberts

Ex-pats have the guts to try something new. They create a life out of nothing. They're experimental. They've seen life from enough different perspectives that they know there's more than one way to skin a cat.

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The Obama Administration is Discouraging Entrepreneurship by Preaching That Taking Risk is Evil

Jerry Chautin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jerry Chautin

President Barack Obama and his risk-aversive legislators are sending the wrong message to America's entrepreneurs. They equate risk taking with wanton greed and evildoing.

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