The Fifth Risk

This book sets out to show why the 45 admin was wrong - not learning from the outgoers nor propelling science forward. It succeeds, I guess.

The real interesting part, and what drew me to it, was looking at top risks as seen from different lenses.

It's curious to me that the top risks for the three departments covered are all essentially ‘not doing basic science'. Of course, the fifth risk...as laid out in part one is project management. — at least that's what's identified. It's not actually project management that is described though. The real identified risk is abandoning the long term gain for the short term gain. This is a risk we all understand intuitively but still fall into. It's partying instead of studying. It's buying the shoes today instead of the computer tomorrow. It's skipping a workout to watch TV. We watch this play out constantly in our private lives and in the government at all levels. ‘Surely the kids will love me more if I give them money now than if I save for their future.'