#risk-takers

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Make sure you affirm and support risk-takers in public, not in private with microappreciations

by Tynesha M. McCullers 

A few months back, I was in a training and I chose to speak up about the importance of understanding people’s varying identities in the workplace, and how those identities influence how they show up and how they are perceived as individuals. After I spoke, I was minimized by the presenter and verbally assaulted by a participant in the space because of my views. 

I…

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Replace "what ifs" with "why nots" ..

What are risks? Who defines them? When we break out of the so called norms set out by society, we are deemed risk-takers. Fearing failure, we abandon our dreams as we go about ticking boxes on somebody else's agenda. The risks we take may well be a mistake but there will be something to learn, a new experience to gain and that will be far more rewarding than regrets and the feeling of "what if?". When our time comes to say bye to Mother Earth let's have no regrets and depart with a wealth of experiences; after all that's the only permanent wealth. Written by Jana.

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Are You Going to Take a Leap of Faith in 2014?

Recently, I discovered, there is no way around it. Sometimes, you have to step out on faith and see where it takes you.  Let’s face it, people who play it safe often go nowhere.  It’s the risk takers who find success and/or change the world.  Think Steve…

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[noozhawk]

What’s missing from the economy, they say, is the dynamism that can help spark a much stronger recovery.

Noozhawk columnist Tom Donohue on the need for more risk-takers in our economy.  He is president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. 

Read more from him at Noozhawk.  

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Darktan had never talked much to the little white rat or the litle female who scurried around after him and drew pictures of the things he'd been thinking about. Darktan liked people who were practical. But now he thought: he's a trap-hunter! Just like me! He goes ahead of us and finds the dangerous ideas and thinks about them and traps them in words and makes them safe and shows us the way through.

Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, 179.

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