High Wire Management – Rise–Taking Tactics for Leaders, Innovators, and Trailblazers

Risk–Taking Tactics for Leaders, Innovators, and Trailblazers

Paperback Engels 2010 9780470639481
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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.

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ISBN13:9780470639481
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Aantal pagina's:250

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Part One: The Value of Risk Taking.
<p>1. The New Realities: Walking the Management Highwire.</p>
<p>2. Excellence and Innovation: The Rewards of Risk Taking.</p>
<p>Part Two: Building Strong Risk–Taking Skills.</p>
<p>3. Assess Your Boundaries, Traits, and Assumptions.</p>
<p>4. Reframe Your Perceptions: Avoiding the Distortion Factors.</p>
<p>5. Improve Your Decision Making: Taking the Right Risk at the Right Time.</p>
<p>6. Confront Your Emotions: Handling the Roller Coaster Rides.</p>
<p>7. Reduce the Dangers: Risk Taking Is Not Risk Free.</p>
<p>8. Survive the Failures: Dealing with the Downside of Risk.</p>
<p>Part Three: Keeping Risk Alive: Encouraging Effective Risk Taking in Yourself and Others.</p>
<p>9. Nurture Your Skills: Learning by Taking Action.</p>
<p>10. Foster Risk Taking in Others,</p>
<p>Appendix: Research Notes.</p>

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