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  • ... understand how to balance risk-taking against potential rewards.  In other words, understand the business or exposure that you're trying to protect, not just the risks.  If it's a for-profit, you need to understand how the company earns its profits and how resilient or vulnerable it is to risk events. You have to do both, think like an entrepreneur AND a risk prevention and mitigation expert. You have to understand how playing great defense sets up the ability to play strong offense. 

  • Understand the business at the processes level

  • ...understand all sides of business (one presented in financials, but also the other one, performed out of financial statements)!

  • confidence

    Kobe Kobson Motlhatlhedi said:

    Identify, measure, monitor and control any risk!

  • -  Address both risks a n d  opportunities

     

  • Have an appetite for Risk.

  • know how to measure risk and know where the edge or the limit lies

  • Minimize sensitivity to the fat tails.

  • Live 88% in the Future, 10% in the present and 2% in the past. Technology is changing at such a rapid rate that by he time the new threat is neutralized 20 more are incubating. Think like a rat.

  • listen very carefully

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