by Rick Nason, PhD, CFA
Partner, RSD Solutions Inc.
How much humor is there in your risk group? Is the risk gang a fun bunch of people who are always pulling gags and taping Dilbert cartoons to their cubicle walls? No?! I thought not.
I recently read this quote by the Canadian author Robertson Davies.
The people who fear humor, and they are many, are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights, to question received opinions, and to suggest unforeseen possibilities.
At the risk of pointing fingers (and poking fun at), I suggest that the above quote sums up the stereotypical risk manager. It is not that risk managers are boring – it is just that the profession has forgotten to occasionally laugh at itself. It may also be that, as Mr. Davies suggests, that the profession has become “… suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights, to question received opinions, and to suggest unforeseen possibilities”.
Perhaps we all need to lighten up.
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