Summary: This job description encourages candidates who understand that taking calculated risks is often highly productive and an advantage to be used, not avoided. Highlights: 1. Embracing calculated risks as productive and advantageous 2. Understanding that playing it safe can be dangerous 3. Challenging conventional views of risk "From an early age, we are all conditioned by our families, our schools, and virtually every other shaping force in our society to avoid risk. To take risks is inadvisable; to play it safe is the counsel we are accustomed both to receiving and to passing on. In the conventional wisdom, risk in asymmetrical; it has only one side, the bad side. In my experience - and all I presume to offer you today is observations drawn on my own experience, which is hardly the experience of ages - in my experience, this conventional view of risk is shortsighted and often simply mistaken. My first observation is that successful people understand that risk, properly conceived, is often highly productive rather than something to avoid. They appreciate that risk is an advantage to be used rather than a pitfall to be skirted. Such people understand that taking calculated risks is quite different from being rash. This view of risk is not only unorthodox, it is paradoxical - the first of several paradoxes which I'm going to present to you today. This one might be encapsulated as follows: playing it safe is dangerous. Far more often than you would realize, the real risk in life turns out to be the refusal to take a risk." -Charles S. Sanford, Jr. University commencement address Prospective candidates are encouraged to forward a resume.
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