When You Don’t Take Any Risks

12/02/2015 10:53PM | 6389 views

In today’s workplace, everyone is at risk. This has become part of the new normal.

But if you seek to get discovered in your career, you must be courageous enough to take risks (though never shortcuts). Taking calculated risks is how you advance business, whether it’s investing in a strategy you hadn’t tried before, or hiring a new employee based on your “gut-feel” rather than credentials alone, for example. You must begin to see risk taking as your new best friend. Playing it too safe is a sign of complacency, and an admission that you would rather stay on the sidelines and be told what to do rather than become a more integral and influential part of the team.