What is the difference between risk managers and risk takers?

Derrick McManus, former STAR Group officer and founder of Human Durability, speaking with podcast host Aleksandra King on The BEYOND Podcast. Derrick McManus says his team are risk managers, not risk takers; they treat the danger seriously and go in confident, knowing their skills, training and tactics.

Derrick McManus is describing a dangerous operation his team went into with a videographer who would stay back under their protection. Hearing the excitement in what he has just said, he pauses to place it beside the seriousness the work demands.

That distinction sets up the account that follows, as the conversation returns to the day itself. Leaving the city around midday, the team held an in-depth briefing and reached the property at a quarter past two.