Success of Risk-Taking by Chief Executive Officers

       

                                 

I have my doubts, from my personal practical experience about the operational success of CEOs who take risks.                To begin with, the sampling used by researchers testing CEO risk-taking is relatively small.  Secondly, the time frame of what is termed success in business is too subjective. How long a period are you measuring? Is it a year or five years? And finally, taking risks in a publicly owned business? In practice, the risk makes little sense. Shareholders are entitled to better judgment on that subject.  (See the Earl J. Weinreb NewsHole® comments and @BusinessNewshole at Twitter.)