Author: Michele Wucker
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1643136798
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The #1 international bestselling author of The Gray Rhino offers a bold new framework for understanding and re-shaping our relationship with risk and uncertainty to live more productive and successful lives. What drives a sixty-four-year-old woman to hurl herself over Niagara Falls in a barrel? Why do we often create bigger risks than the risks we try to avoid? Why are corporate boards newly worried about risky personal behavior by CEOs? Why are some nations quicker than others to recognize and manage risks like pandemics, technological change, and climate crisis? The answers define each person, organization, and society as distinctively as a fingerprint. Understanding the often-surprising origins of these risk fingerprints can open your eyes, inspire new habits, catalyze innovation and creativity, improve teamwork, and provide a beacon in a world that seems suddenly more uncertain than ever. How you see risk and what you do about it depend on your personality and experiences. How you make these cost-benefit calculations depend on your culture, your values, the people in the room, and even unexpected things like what you’ve eaten recently, the temperature, the music playing, or the fragrance in the air. Being alert to these often-unconscious influences will help you to seize opportunity and avoid danger. You Are What You Risk is a clarion call for an entirely new conversation about our relationship with risk and uncertainty. In this ground-breaking, accessible and eminently timely book, Michele Wucker examines why it’s so important to understand your risk fingerprint and how to make your risk relationship work better in business, life, and the world. Drawing on compelling risk stories around the world and weaving in economics, anthropology, sociology, and psychology research, Wucker bridges the divide between professional and lay risk conversations. She challenges stereotypes about risk attitudes, re-frames how gender and risk are related, and shines new light on generational differences. She shows how the new science of “risk personality” is re-shaping business and finance, how healthy risk ecosystems support economies and societies, and why embracing risk empathy can resolve conflicts. Wucker shares insights, practical tools, and proven strategies that will help you to understand what makes you who you are –and, in turn, to make better choices, both big and small.
You Are What You Risk
Author: Michele Wucker
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1643136798
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The #1 international bestselling author of The Gray Rhino offers a bold new framework for understanding and re-shaping our relationship with risk and uncertainty to live more productive and successful lives. What drives a sixty-four-year-old woman to hurl herself over Niagara Falls in a barrel? Why do we often create bigger risks than the risks we try to avoid? Why are corporate boards newly worried about risky personal behavior by CEOs? Why are some nations quicker than others to recognize and manage risks like pandemics, technological change, and climate crisis? The answers define each person, organization, and society as distinctively as a fingerprint. Understanding the often-surprising origins of these risk fingerprints can open your eyes, inspire new habits, catalyze innovation and creativity, improve teamwork, and provide a beacon in a world that seems suddenly more uncertain than ever. How you see risk and what you do about it depend on your personality and experiences. How you make these cost-benefit calculations depend on your culture, your values, the people in the room, and even unexpected things like what you’ve eaten recently, the temperature, the music playing, or the fragrance in the air. Being alert to these often-unconscious influences will help you to seize opportunity and avoid danger. You Are What You Risk is a clarion call for an entirely new conversation about our relationship with risk and uncertainty. In this ground-breaking, accessible and eminently timely book, Michele Wucker examines why it’s so important to understand your risk fingerprint and how to make your risk relationship work better in business, life, and the world. Drawing on compelling risk stories around the world and weaving in economics, anthropology, sociology, and psychology research, Wucker bridges the divide between professional and lay risk conversations. She challenges stereotypes about risk attitudes, re-frames how gender and risk are related, and shines new light on generational differences. She shows how the new science of “risk personality” is re-shaping business and finance, how healthy risk ecosystems support economies and societies, and why embracing risk empathy can resolve conflicts. Wucker shares insights, practical tools, and proven strategies that will help you to understand what makes you who you are –and, in turn, to make better choices, both big and small.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1643136798
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The #1 international bestselling author of The Gray Rhino offers a bold new framework for understanding and re-shaping our relationship with risk and uncertainty to live more productive and successful lives. What drives a sixty-four-year-old woman to hurl herself over Niagara Falls in a barrel? Why do we often create bigger risks than the risks we try to avoid? Why are corporate boards newly worried about risky personal behavior by CEOs? Why are some nations quicker than others to recognize and manage risks like pandemics, technological change, and climate crisis? The answers define each person, organization, and society as distinctively as a fingerprint. Understanding the often-surprising origins of these risk fingerprints can open your eyes, inspire new habits, catalyze innovation and creativity, improve teamwork, and provide a beacon in a world that seems suddenly more uncertain than ever. How you see risk and what you do about it depend on your personality and experiences. How you make these cost-benefit calculations depend on your culture, your values, the people in the room, and even unexpected things like what you’ve eaten recently, the temperature, the music playing, or the fragrance in the air. Being alert to these often-unconscious influences will help you to seize opportunity and avoid danger. You Are What You Risk is a clarion call for an entirely new conversation about our relationship with risk and uncertainty. In this ground-breaking, accessible and eminently timely book, Michele Wucker examines why it’s so important to understand your risk fingerprint and how to make your risk relationship work better in business, life, and the world. Drawing on compelling risk stories around the world and weaving in economics, anthropology, sociology, and psychology research, Wucker bridges the divide between professional and lay risk conversations. She challenges stereotypes about risk attitudes, re-frames how gender and risk are related, and shines new light on generational differences. She shows how the new science of “risk personality” is re-shaping business and finance, how healthy risk ecosystems support economies and societies, and why embracing risk empathy can resolve conflicts. Wucker shares insights, practical tools, and proven strategies that will help you to understand what makes you who you are –and, in turn, to make better choices, both big and small.
Quest
Author: Megan Matthews
Publisher: Megan Matthews
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Clare Cunningham is about to get a lesson in love. I have everything I need in San Francisco. A stable job, friends, and a beautiful Victorian house to come home to every night. My roommate, Drew, and I even made our rent on time every month this year. Life is perfectly fine. At least until I met him. Grant Moore is fun, sweet, and the most genuine man I’ve ever met. The last thing I need is his bulging wallet around all the time. Grant could mess up my carefully constructed plans and make me believe I deserve a life I’ll never get. We had one night together and I need to make sure it stays that way.
Publisher: Megan Matthews
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Clare Cunningham is about to get a lesson in love. I have everything I need in San Francisco. A stable job, friends, and a beautiful Victorian house to come home to every night. My roommate, Drew, and I even made our rent on time every month this year. Life is perfectly fine. At least until I met him. Grant Moore is fun, sweet, and the most genuine man I’ve ever met. The last thing I need is his bulging wallet around all the time. Grant could mess up my carefully constructed plans and make me believe I deserve a life I’ll never get. We had one night together and I need to make sure it stays that way.
Beta
Author: Megan Matthews
Publisher: Megan Matthews
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
Publisher: Megan Matthews
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
Hack
Author: Megan Matthews
Publisher: Megan Matthews
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Amanda Amrose is about to have one hell of a holiday. It should have been a peaceful holiday spent alone in my apartment watching bad television. But life rarely works out the way it should. After witnessing a shooting I’m forced between telling the truth or keeping a friend out of trouble. Keeping up the lie is difficult, especially with my new gorgeous bodyguard living in my tiny space. Hudson is here to keep me safe, but the former Navy SEAL’s presence fills my existence and his intense personality overloads my emotions. I can’t decide if I hate him or love him. I’m keeping secrets, but not for long. Will Hudson stick around when my house of lies tumbles down around us? *Hack is the last book in the RDA series. Make sure you are caught up by reading Rush, Lag, Grind, and Quest first.
Publisher: Megan Matthews
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Amanda Amrose is about to have one hell of a holiday. It should have been a peaceful holiday spent alone in my apartment watching bad television. But life rarely works out the way it should. After witnessing a shooting I’m forced between telling the truth or keeping a friend out of trouble. Keeping up the lie is difficult, especially with my new gorgeous bodyguard living in my tiny space. Hudson is here to keep me safe, but the former Navy SEAL’s presence fills my existence and his intense personality overloads my emotions. I can’t decide if I hate him or love him. I’m keeping secrets, but not for long. Will Hudson stick around when my house of lies tumbles down around us? *Hack is the last book in the RDA series. Make sure you are caught up by reading Rush, Lag, Grind, and Quest first.
Rush
Author: Megan Matthews
Publisher: Megan Matthews
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher: Megan Matthews
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Risk Strategies
Author: Les Coleman
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1317062744
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
At a time when unacceptable risk taking is rightly condemned, how can organizations still benefit from the upside of risk? Can risk still be good? Written by an author who has managed risk, teaches about risk, but most importantly of all has researched the theory of risk, this book will help senior executives dial up the right level of risk within their organizations in order to enhance performance. There are many risk management techniques that are known to work and risk management has logged many successes, but that doesn't mean managers understand why they work, how and why risks arise, and how organizations can be shaped strategically to optimize the benefits of well-judged business risks. Dr Les Coleman argues that finance and management risk has been a theory-free zone, similar to medicine in the Middle Ages, when physicians were aware of surgical techniques and medicines that worked, but did not know why and were impotent in the face of systemic illness. Today risk managers face much the same situation: They know of techniques that work such as audits, controls and procedure guides. Nevertheless, they rarely anticipate, much less prevent, serious failures. They have no comprehensive knowledge framework for targeting optimum risk levels. This timely book fills some of that gap with an outline of the nature and sources of risk in firms. It sets out a body of risk knowledge to support its management, particularly at the corporate level, in much the same way that our understanding of human physiology and the physical sciences support modern medical and engineering techniques. The reader will learn, for example, how risk attitudes and outcomes flow through an organization and about creative techniques such as asset-liability management. In this area of corporate finance so critical for executives and directors, Risk Strategies will help responsible CFOs and other senior managers, together with teachers and students of management, extend their knowledge and risk management skills.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1317062744
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
At a time when unacceptable risk taking is rightly condemned, how can organizations still benefit from the upside of risk? Can risk still be good? Written by an author who has managed risk, teaches about risk, but most importantly of all has researched the theory of risk, this book will help senior executives dial up the right level of risk within their organizations in order to enhance performance. There are many risk management techniques that are known to work and risk management has logged many successes, but that doesn't mean managers understand why they work, how and why risks arise, and how organizations can be shaped strategically to optimize the benefits of well-judged business risks. Dr Les Coleman argues that finance and management risk has been a theory-free zone, similar to medicine in the Middle Ages, when physicians were aware of surgical techniques and medicines that worked, but did not know why and were impotent in the face of systemic illness. Today risk managers face much the same situation: They know of techniques that work such as audits, controls and procedure guides. Nevertheless, they rarely anticipate, much less prevent, serious failures. They have no comprehensive knowledge framework for targeting optimum risk levels. This timely book fills some of that gap with an outline of the nature and sources of risk in firms. It sets out a body of risk knowledge to support its management, particularly at the corporate level, in much the same way that our understanding of human physiology and the physical sciences support modern medical and engineering techniques. The reader will learn, for example, how risk attitudes and outcomes flow through an organization and about creative techniques such as asset-liability management. In this area of corporate finance so critical for executives and directors, Risk Strategies will help responsible CFOs and other senior managers, together with teachers and students of management, extend their knowledge and risk management skills.
Methods for Reliability Improvement and Risk Reduction
Author: Michael Todinov
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 111947731X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Reliability is one of the most important attributes for the products and processes of any company or organization. This important work provides a powerful framework of domain-independent reliability improvement and risk reducing methods which can greatly lower risk in any area of human activity. It reviews existing methods for risk reduction that can be classified as domain-independent and introduces the following new domain-independent reliability improvement and risk reduction methods: Separation Stochastic separation Introducing deliberate weaknesses Segmentation Self-reinforcement Inversion Reducing the rate of accumulation of damage Permutation Substitution Limiting the space and time exposure Comparative reliability models The domain-independent methods for reliability improvement and risk reduction do not depend on the availability of past failure data, domain-specific expertise or knowledge of the failure mechanisms underlying the failure modes. Through numerous examples and case studies, this invaluable guide shows that many of the new domain-independent methods improve reliability at no extra cost or at a low cost. Using the proven methods in this book, any company and organisation can greatly enhance the reliability of its products and operations.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 111947731X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Reliability is one of the most important attributes for the products and processes of any company or organization. This important work provides a powerful framework of domain-independent reliability improvement and risk reducing methods which can greatly lower risk in any area of human activity. It reviews existing methods for risk reduction that can be classified as domain-independent and introduces the following new domain-independent reliability improvement and risk reduction methods: Separation Stochastic separation Introducing deliberate weaknesses Segmentation Self-reinforcement Inversion Reducing the rate of accumulation of damage Permutation Substitution Limiting the space and time exposure Comparative reliability models The domain-independent methods for reliability improvement and risk reduction do not depend on the availability of past failure data, domain-specific expertise or knowledge of the failure mechanisms underlying the failure modes. Through numerous examples and case studies, this invaluable guide shows that many of the new domain-independent methods improve reliability at no extra cost or at a low cost. Using the proven methods in this book, any company and organisation can greatly enhance the reliability of its products and operations.
Quicker, Better, Cheaper?
Author: Dall Forsythe
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780914341857
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Scholars and practitioners explore American government performance management offering diverse views.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780914341857
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Scholars and practitioners explore American government performance management offering diverse views.
Lag
Author: Megan Matthews
Publisher: Megan Matthews
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher: Megan Matthews
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Five Times the Holiday
Author: Megan Matthews
Publisher: Megan Matthews
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
He’s been the love of my life and my best friend since fifth grade, but all of that is about to change. The holidays are big at Oceanview Orchards. It’s all hands-on deck to help. This year, after the festivities, I hop a plane to visit friends for one last big hurrah before we all go our separate ways. Nothing goes as planned and a snap decision leads me to the other side of the country. One heartfelt confession later and my entire life will change. Either I come home with the love of my life or leave everything I’ve ever wanted behind. Am I willing to sacrifice it all for a future I can’t guarantee? Buy Five Times the Holiday to visit Oceanview Orchards and discover how Hope surprises everyone with her Holiday romance.
Publisher: Megan Matthews
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
He’s been the love of my life and my best friend since fifth grade, but all of that is about to change. The holidays are big at Oceanview Orchards. It’s all hands-on deck to help. This year, after the festivities, I hop a plane to visit friends for one last big hurrah before we all go our separate ways. Nothing goes as planned and a snap decision leads me to the other side of the country. One heartfelt confession later and my entire life will change. Either I come home with the love of my life or leave everything I’ve ever wanted behind. Am I willing to sacrifice it all for a future I can’t guarantee? Buy Five Times the Holiday to visit Oceanview Orchards and discover how Hope surprises everyone with her Holiday romance.