Q. Are chief executives becoming more risk-averse?

Most teams have become so risk-averse, their defenses may amount to 30 Seconds of Heck.

Oil companies, he said, "have become more risk-averse."

In many cases collegiality has been replaced by skepticism and boards have become more risk-averse.

But society has become more risk-averse, and liability costs have escalated.

"Investors have become more risk-averse," he said.

Britain has indeed become more risk-averse in recent years, largely because of a pervasive public fear of American-style litigation.

The industry had become so risk-averse, that publishers were not willing to invest large amounts of money on projects that are not proven long-term successes.

I think that as we have become more layered, the culture here has become risk-averse.

He worries that he has become too risk-averse.