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Originally posted by madmax
Let's be honest. Do you really about risk management issues? I think you broke most of the same rules that you are always telling us not to break. I think your real concern is declining revenues and increased costs and you are just looking for ways to increase your revenues and cut your costs.
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Delt, hope you don't mind my jumping in here, and, I'm assuming you did have a lot of "fun" and maybe broke some rules when you were in college, about a generation before I did...
The big change Madmax, has been societal. When I joined LXA in the 80's - risk management wasn't in anyone's vocabulary - we rarely heard about lawsuits or anything else. We'd hear about incidents, and chapters being closed, and that was the end of that problem.
In the late 80's and into the 90's, attorneys started to wisen up to the vast amount of untapped money that previous cases could have won in suits. Real lawsuits didn't really start getting traction until after the Rutger's LXA and other incidents made national news.
Unfortunately, there is some truth in what you say about us breaking the rules we are telling you not to break. The difference between then and now, is that society generally regarded it then as "boys being boys," where now society sees it for the bad image we unintentially in part created, and a veritable gold mine in lawsuits.
It's similar to the hazing analogy - how many chapters with serious hazing problems all offered the same explanation - "it's always been that way" or "if I went through it, damn it, so will the other new guys coming in" mindset. Nevermind that it is wrong, or doesn't follow the true ideals of the organization, it falls under the "tradition" bandwagon. It's the same thing with risk management, but it's more the "it can't happen here" mindset versus tradition.
All grist for the mill.