100 Most Creative People

*/by Rick Nason, PhD, CFA
Partner, RSD Solutions Inc/*

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The Most Creative People in Business issue of Fast Company is currently on
the newsstands.  It is one of my favorite issues of one of my favorite
magazines.  Browsing through it I immediately noticed that there were no
people with the title of risk manager listed.  I did not check "Most
Creative People" issues from previous years, but I suspect that there has
never been a risk manager named to the annual list. 

I believe that risk management is a creative field.  However with the
proliferation of regulation and frameworks it has become a field of
compliance rather than creativity.  That is simply not good.

Looking through the Most Creative People issue of Fast Company, and reading
the profiles, achievements, and mindsets of the individuals listed, one
quickly realizes that each of them is actually practicing risk management in
their own way, and each of them has become successful because of their risk
management skills – even though they are in professions very different from
risk management.

Good risk management and creativity go hand in hand.  Hopefully soon, a risk
manager will be cited as one of the most creative people in business.


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