One almost feels a tinge of sympathy.Mr Weill says this harrowing episode taught him a valuable lesson: that risks to reputation are just as important as day-to-day financial risks.
In Midland, Mr. Bush unfortunately absorbed the lesson that risks in the desert pay off.
For young people whose lives are already disrupted by family members in trouble with the criminal justice system, this is a lesson with risks that are worth exploring.
But, he says, that would have been a "ripping good lesson" in risk management.
Both events provide stark lessons about risks, and about how badly markets and societies can manage them.
The chilling lesson: Unsuccessful risk taking or failing in business can send you to prison.
Exercises like the ones shown in the video above can be used to lesson the risk of getting DVT.
The cases also highlight lessons learned, risks and mitigating measures.
Especially lessons on risks of unsafe sex, negotiating condom use and resisting social pressure to practice unsafe sex were considerably modified compared with the rest.
The lessons of risk and perseverance carry a special motivational currency in the business world.
But in a static, homogenous place, even such innocuous lessons carry risk.
