I work in the investment business, where risk-taking is an occupational necessity.  There isn’t anyone successful at managing a mutual or hedge fund who avoids risk; we just need to face it carefully.  Traditionally the industry encourages a solo approach to evaluating risk; at Fidelity Investments, where I worked for over two decades, each fund is assigned to one person who makes all the buying and selling decisions. When results are strong, the manager basks in the glow, prestige, and compensation attached to outperformance.  When performance suffers, a situation experienced by anyone who has managed a fund for over ten years, you feel like an impostor and reach for the Pepto Bismal.