Highwire Management: Risk-Taking Tactics for Leaders, Innovators, and Trailblazers
Gene Calvert
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Description for Highwire Management: Risk-Taking Tactics for Leaders, Innovators, and Trailblazers
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 226 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: KJM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 404.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780470639481
SKU
V9780470639481
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Gene Calvert
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.
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