Highwire Management: Risk-Taking Tactics for Leaders, Innovators, and TrailblazersISBN: 978-0-470-63948-1
Paperback
250 pages
September 1993, Jossey-Bass
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Part 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.