What is Risk?

Risk. That word means different things to different people. To some people, risk could be the possiblity of getting hurt while doing what you do. Risk could be losing the trust of people around you from you not doing something.

To me, Risk is losing it all.

James, you say I need to have a Walkabout with Risk, but if you just look on one way of what risk could be, you fail to see that doing everything has risk to it, everything. Forgetting to brush your teeth one night risks you getting a cavity, working a printing press risks inking your shirt, working as a teacher risks your students hating and making fun of you.

You say that being at ISI doesn't harbour much risk. You may be right, right now I'm in Sales. There isn't much risk there. If I went back to ISI I would be working with the printing presses, computers, etc, where the risk is a lot higher, the risk of screwing something up so bad that it can't be fixed easily and losing everything is there. Losing trust is the greatist risk in my mind when on a walkabout.

And to risk losing is a risk in itself.