Gardens Not Buildings

 

*/By Rick Nason, PhD, CFA
Partner, RSD Solutions Inc./*

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I am going to steal yet another idea from Seth Godin.  (I get my ideas and
inspiration from wherever I can – not a bad mindset for risk managers to
adopt).  Last week, Mr. Godin posted a blog called Gardens Not Buildings. 
The link is here. 
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2013/07/gardens-not-buildings.html
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Paraphrasing the article, Godin compares the engineering and rigidity that
goes into a creating a building, while a garden grows, evolves and develops a
personality over time.

I believe that in risk management we are way too focused on building what we
foolishly and misguidedly hope is permanent buildings of risk processes,
procedures and regulations.  In contrast I believe it is much more
productive to let risk management procedures be more organic – much like
gardens.

Buildings collapse, gardens don't.


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