Dude ..did you say Intelligent Risk taking

Yesterday i had a lousy meeting where some management trainee kept on talkin endlessly about a product he has never worked with but he manged to get some "material" about the same from some of his "contacts in the industry"

His boss, in a bid to show the fucntional skills of this trainee guy kept on asking quesstions like what is the full form of WIP etc.

I doubt they have planned the questions or perhaps his boss was trying not to sleep too ..

I was supposed to be part of the discussion but i was too tired of trying to find the relevance in his talk.

So i decided to let go off what he is talkin and closed my eyes in a thoughful mode and slowly my mind started swinging in my own world.

Though i wanted to think of Seal fish for some strange reasons words like market leaders , most amazing product in his entire life / etc kept on coming to my ears and tried disturbing me.

All i was thinking is Seal fish is th leader in the Sea or wherever it is found.

Suddenly the chap said if you are taking risk it must be "intelligent risk taking"

and vrooom Seal fish went deep in the sea and i wondered what is intelligent risk taking ..

this is one of the classics u hear from the half baked management graduates who thinks nothing is tangible , everything is interrelated and there is no black and white in life ( i am not a management guy now, even if i become one, i ll continue to do do management people thrashing :) )

I resfectfully disagree in this regard

Risk is something which you take based on your instincts which has nothing to do with intellignece whatsoever...

high risk must be associated with high gains however there is nothing like intelligent risk...

this phrase must be coined by some silly non active / non risk taker who wanted to sound adventerous at the same time intellectual ...

Suddenly the management trainee s lecture was over and he stood in pride with a fake smile asking us for our Business cards.

Thankfully i dint had mine and my boss didnt want to give his.

So we shook hands and walked away..