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Wucker Michele - You Are What You Risk The New Art And Science Of Navigating An Uncertain World - Hardcover

Wucker Michele - You Are What You Risk The New Art And Science Of Navigating An Uncertain World - Hardcover

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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 CE Os? 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.
Title: You Are What You Risk The New Art And Science Of Navigating An Uncertain World
Author(s): Wucker Michele
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Barcode: 9781643136783
Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Date: 7/8/2022
Category: Management Decision Making
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