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Rewards are ALWAYS proportional to the risks…

By Rajesh Setty on Thu 24 May 2007, 12:27 PM - 8 Comments

Rewards are rarely directly proportional to any one thing. It is always a combination.

Talking about rewards being ALWAYS proportional to risks, I will let these pictures speak

1. High Risk…

2. Higher Risk…

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Anonymous on May 24th, 2007

Very interestin point Rajesh,
I would be very interested of your more-in-depth view of this and of the combination of factors. If you’d like to share it. Just today I had a phonecall from a potential partner using “The higher risk…” phrase. Made me thinking…
thanks for your answer

Anonymous on May 26th, 2007

Viktor,
Thank you for your note. Please send me a note offline on this topic. I don’t want to start a thread on this topic as it is more complicated to be a blog post
Best,
Raj

Anonymous on May 27th, 2007

This post made me smile.
Was his reward that he got to work on a window office? Or was it that the higher risk version allowed him to wash many floors’ worth of windows at once?

Anonymous on May 27th, 2007

very well put

Anonymous on May 28th, 2007

In the context of the pictures, don’t the risks plateau after a while? After all, how much less riskier is the 50th floor compared to the 100th floor? The rewards in this case seem to be iin fact independent of the risk. After all he can only clean one window at a time.

Anonymous on May 28th, 2007

Hi Suresh,
Sorry. I was being a bit sarcastic there. In both cases, the rewards are nothing compared to the risk that these people are taking.
Whether the person is cleaning the windows at floor no. 50 or floor no. 100 or for that matter floor no.10, he is losing. The rewards are not proportional to the risks.
I was trying to make the contrarian point here.
My $.02 of course.
Best,
Raj

Anonymous on May 29th, 2007

Window washing is a low skilled job. Your picture is a classic example of elevating a low skilled job to a highly skilled job. Risk becomes a barrier for entry to others.