Description
Book SynopsisDraws on numerous examples of working managers in organizations such as Aetna, MCI, and NASA to explain and illustrate how to manage the risk-taking process from start to finish, while giving careful consideration to the pros and cons of each risk. Offers specific, practical tactics and provides easy-to-use instruments that will help managers set priorities and develop risk-taking strategies and skills.
Portraits of working managers in organizations such as Aetna, MCI, nad NASA illustrate how to manage the risk-taking process from start to finish.
Table of ContentsPart One: The Value of Risk Taking. 1. The New Realities: Walking the Management Highwire.
2. Excellence and Innovation: The Rewards of Risk Taking.
Part Two: Building Strong Risk-Taking Skills.
3. Assess Your Boundaries, Traits, and Assumptions.
4. Reframe Your Perceptions: Avoiding the Distortion Factors.
5. Improve Your Decision Making: Taking the Right Risk at the Right Time.
6. Confront Your Emotions: Handling the Roller Coaster Rides.
7. Reduce the Dangers: Risk Taking Is Not Risk Free.
8. Survive the Failures: Dealing with the Downside of Risk.
Part Three: Keeping Risk Alive: Encouraging Effective Risk Taking in Yourself and Others.
9. Nurture Your Skills: Learning by Taking Action.
10. Foster Risk Taking in Others,
Appendix: Research Notes.
