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The Gray Rhino

How to Recognize and Act on the Obvious Dangers We Ignore

By: Michele Wucker

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The Gray Rhino

How to Recognize and Act on the Obvious Dangers We Ignore

By: Michele Wucker

The #1 English-language bestseller in China--the book that is shaping China's planning and policy for the future. A "gray rhino" is a highly probable, high impact yet neglected threat: kin to both the elephant in the room and the improbable and unforeseeable black swan. Gray rhinos are not random surprises, but occur after a series of warnings and visible evidence. The bursting of the housing bubble in 2008, the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and other natural disasters, the new digital technologies that upended the media world, the fall of the Soviet Union...all were evident well in advance. Why do leaders and decision makers keep failing to address obvious dangers before they spiral out of control? Drawing on her extensive background in policy formation and crisis management, as well as in-depth interviews with leaders from around the world, Michele Wucker shows in The Gray Rhino how to recognize and strategically counter looming high impact threats. Filled with persuasive stories, real-world examples, and practical advice, The Gray Rhino is essential reading for managers, investors, planners, policy makers, and anyone who wants to understand how to profit by avoiding getting trampled.

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288

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St. Martin's Press

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ISBN 10

1466887001

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9781466887008

You Are What You Risk

The New Art and Science of Navigating an Uncertain World

By: Michele Wucker

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You Are What You Risk

The New Art and Science of Navigating an Uncertain World

By: Michele Wucker

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.

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244

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Simon and Schuster

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1643136798

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9781643136790

The Gray Rhino

How to Recognize and Act on the Obvious Dangers We Ignore

By: Michele Wucker

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The Gray Rhino

How to Recognize and Act on the Obvious Dangers We Ignore

By: Michele Wucker

Machine generated contents note: -- Preface -- 1. Meet the Gray Rhino -- 2. The Problem with Predictions: Unleashing Denial -- 3. Denial: Why We Miss Seeing Rhinos and Don't Get Out of Their Way -- 4. Muddling: Why We Don't Act Even When We See the Rhino -- 5. Diagnosing: Right and Wrong Solutions -- 6. Panic: Decision-Making Facing a Charging Rhino -- 7. Action: The "Aha" Moment -- 8. After the Trampling: A Crisis Is a Terrible Thing to Waste -- 9. Rhinos on the Horizon: Thinking Long-Term -- 10. Conclusion: How to Keep from Getting Run Over by a Rhino -- Acknowledgments -- End Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Macmillan

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125005382X

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9781250053824

Why the Cocks Fight

Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola

By: Michele Wucker

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Why the Cocks Fight

Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola

By: Michele Wucker

Like two roosters in a fighting arena, Haiti and the Dominican Republic are encircled by barriers of geography and poverty. They co-inhabit the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, but their histories are as deeply divided as their cultures: one French-speaking and black, one Spanish-speaking and mulatto. Yet, despite their antagonism, the two countries share a national symbol in the rooster--and a fundamental activity and favorite sport in the cockfight. In this book, Michele Wucker asks: "If the symbols that dominate a culture accurately express a nation's character, what kind of a country draws so heavily on images of cockfighting and roosters, birds bred to be aggressive? What does it mean when not one but two countries that are neighbors choose these symbols? Why do the cocks fight, and why do humans watch and glorify them?" Wucker studies the cockfight ritual in considerable detail, focusing as much on the customs and histories of these two nations as on their contemporary lifestyles and politics. Her well-cited and comprehensive volume also explores the relations of each nation toward the United States, which twice invaded both Haiti (in 1915 and 1994) and the Dominican Republic (in 1916 and 1965) during the twentieth century. Just as the owners of gamecocks contrive battles between their birds as a way of playing out human conflicts, Wucker argues, Haitian and Dominican leaders often stir up nationalist disputes and exaggerate their cultural and racial differences as a way of deflecting other kinds of turmoil. Thus Why the Cocks Fight highlights the factors in Caribbean history that still affect Hispaniola today, including the often contradictory policies of the U.S.

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Hill and Wang

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1466867884

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9781466867888

You Are What You Risk

The New Art and Science of Navigating an Uncertain World

By: Michele Wucker

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The New Art and Science of Navigating an Uncertain World

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Simon and Schuster

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The Gray Rhino

The Gray Rhino

You Are What You Risk

You Are What You Risk

The Gray Rhino

The Gray Rhino

Why the Cocks Fight

Why the Cocks Fight

You Are What You Risk

You Are What You Risk

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