Taking a Break

by Rick Nason, PhD, CFA
Partner, RSD Solutions Inc.

It has been a while since I have written a blog – almost two months in fact (Ed. note: some subsequently written blogs have been posted earlier than this one).  While I generally enjoy writing blogs, it can occasionally become a grind trying to come up with ideas that are both interesting, and hopefully fresh.  No one wants to read the same ideas again and again.  To that end I decided to take a bit of a break and do some reading (and writing) away from risk management.  I think we all need that a bit – that is we all need a break from the day to day grind of the same ideas being rehashed again and again.  It is why academics get sabbaticals – an opportunity to take a break and to build up a set of different ideas based on different perspectives.

Perhaps it is time that more risk departments offered sabbaticals as well.  Much of the risk thinking seems to be the same ‘ole thing.  Perhaps taking a break to gain a fresh perspective will help to improve the quality, creativity and enthusiasm of the thinking.