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Risk : A User's Guide by General Stanley McChrystal; Anna Butrico is a business book available to read on EtoBox.

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From the bestselling author of Team of Teams and My Share of the Task, an entirely new way to understand risk and master the unknown. Retired four-star general Stan McChrystal has lived a life associated with the deadly risks of combat. From his first day at West Point, to his years in Afghanistan, to his efforts helping business leaders navigate a global pandemic, McChrystal has seen how individuals and organizations fail to mitigate risk. Why? Because they focus on the probability of something happening instead of the interface by which it can be managed.   In this new book, General McChrystal offers a battle-tested system for detecting and responding to risk. Instead of defining risk as a force to predict, McChrystal and coauthor Anna Butrico show that there are in fact ten dimensions of control we can adjust at any given time. By closely monitoring these controls, we can maintain a healthy Risk Immune System that allows us to effectively anticipate, identify, analyze, and act upon the ever-present possibility that things will not go as planned.   Drawing on examples ranging from military history to the business world, and offering practical exercises to improve preparedness, Mc

Who reads Risk : A User's Guide?

It is typically read by working professionals who need an authoritative practice reference.

Common subject areas: medicine, law, business, engineering.

Author
General Stanley McChrystal; Anna Butrico
Publisher
Portfolio / Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Published
2021
Language
EN
ISBN
9780593192207
Category
business
Subjects
Management, Business, Economics
Rating
4.5 / 5 (387 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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