Sentences with phrase «culture is risk averse»
We have a much smaller pool of risk capital in Canada, our culture is risk averse, and we have fewer of the skills required to drive and manage growth.
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A major one is that the culture tends to be more risk - averse, and venture capitalists are wary to invest in new or creative business models.
«Innovation's a big part of our whole corporate culture and part of what helps differentiate us,» says Carlson, pointing out that oil and gas companies can be risk - averse and sometimes late to exploit opportunities presented by technical advances.
The discussion explored how women are challenged by pay inequity, the perception of being too ambitious and by company policies and culture that leave many women who are mothers averse to taking risks.
They are reflective of a wider culture of fear and risk aversion, of a political establishment increasingly concerned with the micromanagement of community life, a process which also affects professionals who increasingly work in a risk - averse manner.
Despite our increasingly risk ‑ averse culture and the red tape and admin faced by the minority of schools that choose the DIY approach to school trip planning, there is no evidence that the number of school trips is decreasing.
With our testing and assessing models so much embedded in our education system's culture, what is a good way to start teaching teachers about more creative thinking and teaching students to be more risk averse?
Furthermore, a group of risk - averse, under confident, frustrated junior lawyers without a commercial skillset perpetuates the risk culture that firms are supposedly seeking to avoid.
It is particularly difficult to start businesses in Canada due to the conservative (risk - averse) business culture and lack of venture capital or traditional investment.
As discussed above, Israelis, and by extension Israeli lawyers, are typically less risk - averse than other cultures and are straightforward, informal and aggressive.
It feels like an oxymoron that a profession usually so averse to risk will be the riskiest with the thing that is the most important: firm culture.