Status
Available
Call number
Publication
San Francisco : Jossey-Bass
ISBN
1555425534 / 9781555425531
Description
Draws 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.
Local notes
CONTENTS:
Part one: The value of risk taking -- The new realities: Walking the management highwire -- Excellence and innovation: The rewards of risk taking -- Part two: Building strong risk-taking skills -- Assess your boundaries, traits, and assumptions -- Reframe your perceptions: Avoiding the distortion factors -- Improve your decision making: Taking the right risk at the right time -- Confront your emotions: Handling the roller coaster rides -- Reduce the dangers: Risk taking is not risk free -- Survive the failures: Dealing with the downside of risk -- Part three: Keeping risk alive: Encouraging effective risk taking in yourself and others -- Nurture your skills: Learning by taking action -- Foster risk taking in others -- Appendix: Research notes.
Part one: The value of risk taking -- The new realities: Walking the management highwire -- Excellence and innovation: The rewards of risk taking -- Part two: Building strong risk-taking skills -- Assess your boundaries, traits, and assumptions -- Reframe your perceptions: Avoiding the distortion factors -- Improve your decision making: Taking the right risk at the right time -- Confront your emotions: Handling the roller coaster rides -- Reduce the dangers: Risk taking is not risk free -- Survive the failures: Dealing with the downside of risk -- Part three: Keeping risk alive: Encouraging effective risk taking in yourself and others -- Nurture your skills: Learning by taking action -- Foster risk taking in others -- Appendix: Research notes.