1st Edition

Making Risky and Important Decisions A Leader’s Guide

By Ruth Murray-Webster, David Hillson Copyright 2021
148 Pages
by Auerbach Publications

148 Pages
by Auerbach Publications

148 Pages
by Auerbach Publications

This book offers a practical insight to leaders who need to make good decisions in risky and important situations. The authors describe a process for making risk-intelligent decisions, explaining complex ideas simply, and mapping a route through the myriad interrelated influences when groups make decisions that matter. The approach puts the decision maker—you—at the center and explains how you... Read more

Chapter 1. Doing Better
Chapter 2. Intelligent Process
Chapter 3. Perception Is Reality
Chapter 4. Value from Difference
Chapter 5. Intentional Choices
Chapter 6. Shaping Risk Culture
Chapter 7. "Yes, But . . ."
Chapter 8. You Can Do It!
Appendix A. Recommended Further Reading
Appendix B. Further Reading from the Authors

Biography

Dr. Ruth Murray-Webster, HonFAPM, CMIRM is recognized as a leader of project-based organizational change and risk management performing roles as a practitioner, advisor, facilitator, researcher and author. For more than 30 years Ruth has practiced and advanced change and risk management approaches, developing commercially astute strategy, centered on emerging risks and disruptive trends.

Dr. David Hillson, FIRM HonFAPM PMI-Fellow CMgr FCMI is The Risk Doctor, an international risk management consultant who leads The Risk Doctor Partnership. Having worked in nearly 60 countries and published 11 major books and more than 100 journal papers and articles on risk, David is recognized globally as a leading thinker and expert practitioner in risk management.