Highwire Management: Risk-Taking Tactics for Leaders, Innovators, and Trailblazers - Softcover

Calvert, Gene

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470639482 ISBN 13: 9780470639481

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1993

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

GENE CALVERT is founder and president of Carpe Diem, a management consulting group based in Washington, D.C. He is a faculty member of the Institutes for Organization Management of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and an associate professor of management at Johns Hopkins University.

"One skill that all executives attempting to manage technology need is the ability to evaluate and undertake risk.... Drawing from an impressive variety of sources, Mr. Calvert teaches readers to assess their current risk skills, challenge false risk assumptions, judge risks soundly, lower risk levels, control emotional responses to risk, and, perhaps most important, survive the inevitable failures."
―Industry Week

"One skill that all executives attempting to manage technology need is the ability to evaluate and undertake risk.... Drawing from an impressive variety of sources, Mr. Calvert teaches readers to assess their current risk skills, challenge false risk assumptions, judge risks soundly, lower risk levels, control emotional responses to risk, and, perhaps most important, survive the inevitable failures."
—Industry Week

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470639482
• ISBN 13: 9780470639481
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 250