Skydiving is for some a one time, “bucket list” item. Others, (including me) would never, as they say, “ jump out of a perfectly good airplane.”
And there are some for whom it’s practically a lifestyle.
For one CEO his avocation of skydiving has informed his vocation of being a CEO in an area that is part and parcel of every leader’s job: coping with risk and uncertainty.
In a recent Chief Executive Magazine article, a CEO with nearly 1,000 jumps to his credit writes “I’ve been jumping from airplanes since age 18 and I believe there is no better education in the art of preparation and risk management than falling at terminal velocity from over 10,000 feet.”
Juan C. Andrade, CEO of Everest Re shares what he has learned about managing risk from jumping out of perfectly good airplanes nearly 1,000 times in his short post “Stick the Landing: Packing Your Parachute for An Uncertain World.”
By the way, the company the Mr. Andrade runs is…(wait for it) an insurance company. (I don’t know if they underwrite him.)
