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Crisp: Risk Taking, Revised Edition: A Guide for Decision Makers (Crisp Fifty-Minute Books) [Paperback]

Herbert S. Kindler (Author)

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Publication Date: April 1999 | Series: Crisp Fifty-Minute Books

The critical skills taught in this book will help you find working solutions for complicated problems, determine how much risk is acceptable in a situation, learn a process for moving from decision to action, and handle risk with more awareness, skill, and confidence. Decision making always involves some level of risk. Learning the necessary skills to assess and minimize the uncertainty can remove some of the possible damage and fear involved in taking risks. This book presents an array of techniques to analyze and deal with risk, using checklists, exercises, and questionnaires to help you understand your own comfort levels with risk and how you can approach it with greater confidence.

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About the Author

Herb Kindler has conducted hundreds of leadership training programs in the United States and abroad. He is an M.I.T. graduate with his doctorate in management from UCLA. He was a chief engineer and CEO in industry before becoming full professor of management at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He currently conducts short courses at corporations, universities, and government organizations. As an international trainer, Dr. Kindler's clients include Symantec, Lockheed Martin, Hughes Electronics, IBM, Mattel Toys, General Motors, JVC, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, TRW, Starbucks, BBDO, Port of Oakland, U.S. Navy, City of Torrance, Congress Capacitación Ejecutiva (Mexico) and Thai Airways and Nortel Networks (Thailand). He is the senior instructor at UCLA's semi-annual Technical Management Program, ranked #1 by participants, and UC Berkeley's Project Leadership Program. He is the author of Managing Disagreement Constructively (over 100,000 sold), Risk Taking: A Guide for Decision Makers, and Clear & Creative Thinking.

Product Details

Paperback: 96 pages
Publisher: Crisp Learning; 2 edition (April 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1560525258
ISBN-13: 978-1560525257
Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 8 x 0.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,243,240 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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A central fact of risk taking is that you do not know the outcome of your decisions before you make them. Read the first page

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This book cites 13 books:

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In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies (Collins Business Essentials) by Thomas J. Peters on page 53
Taking Risks by Donald Wehrung on page 83
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein on page 83

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