Steve Jobs as Risk Manager

Rick Nason, PhD, CFA

Partner, RSD Solutions Inc

www.RSDsolutions.com

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Just finished the Steve Jobs biography.  Interesting book about an interesting person.  Not sure if it is a biography on how to be a manager (rip people apart, be ruthless, demand nothing but perfection, be a rebel, think differently, be obsessed with design, be obsessed) or how not to be a manager (see previous set of parentheses).  Interesting to think though about what Steve Jobs would be like as a risk manager.  Would his qualities be an asset, or a liability?  

Who is Risk’s Steve Jobs

by Rick Nason, PhD, CFA

Partner, RSD Solutions Inc.

www.RSDsolutions.com

info@RSDsolutions.com 

 

We all already miss Steve Jobs.  In fact it may be argued we miss him too much as media articles are asking if we are making him a saint.  That is another issue for another time as far as I am concerned.

 

My question is “Who is Risk’s Steve Jobs?”  Who is the individual who has had the force of character to change the risk industry?  Who has created a paradigm shift in risk products and services?  Most interestingly, what risk manager has been a massive failure and let go rather unceremoniously from their own company, to only come back and have an even greater triumph?