Highwire Management: Risk-Taking Tactics for Leaders, Innovators, and Trailblazers (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series)

Calvert, Gene

ISBN 10: 1555425534 / ISBN 13: 9781555425531

Published by Jossey-Bass, 1993

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Highwire Management: Risk-Taking Tactics for Leaders, Innovators, and Trailblazers (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series)
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555425534
• ISBN 13: 9781555425531
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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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 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.