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Risky Strategy : Understanding Risk to Improve Strategic Decisions.
"What is risk? Is it danger or opportunity? Can it be managed or is it something to be embraced and tried? When companies are developing their business strategies, risk is often mentioned in passing (and frequently misunderstood), but is rarely seen as a core part of the strategic decision-maki...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; 1 Introduction: A tale of two cities; Working with the tensions; What this book offers you as a leader; My story and my sources; 2 When strategy gets risky; Crossing a road; Why strategies don't make choices; Linear strategic thinking; The problem is in the implementation, or is it?; Risk management as an afterthought; A closer look at success and failure; SMaC's deliver results; Strategy is reducing risk or is it? The core process story; Strategy for managers, risk for experts; Risk is taboo; Avoid the polarizing errors; Choose when to risk; 3 From strategy to character.
- Introducing the Blonay ProfilerModelling character tensions; Organizational character at the heart of strategy; Researching modern slavery; The impact of major UK retail brands; 4 Understanding risk; The psychology of definition; Risk as variability; Risk as crisis
- a public management view; Understanding variables; Risk as cause and effect; Whose risk is it?; Risk plays uncertainty; Working with risk
- Ashridge research; Tigers and elephants; Fast and slow thinking; 5 Elephants and formal risk management; Generic forms of mitigation; Risk-return.
- Risk-return in strategic decision making
- 'Make' or 'Buy'Break-even and financial gearing; Ansoff Roulette; The dangers of misunderstanding risk-return; The impact of risk on the value of capital; 6 Tigers and informal risk; Elephants are 'Be perfect'; tigers are 'Hurry up'; Tigers, elephants, the drivers and the character profiler; Tigers and information; Tigers enjoy working with variability; Physiological factors; The testosterone winner effect; What makes you come alive; 7 Games of the mind; Risk management; Risk compensation; Black swans and turkeys; Confirmation bias.
- Cognitive inertiaLateral thinking; Loss aversion; Broad framing; The group effect; Logical illusions; Bayesian effects; Visual illusions; Game theory and collaboration; 8 Aspiring to win; A winning aspiration creates a need for risk; Lessons in risk from sport; Victory calls for risk; Risk in bold adventures
- the race to the Pole; Winning and the Olay story; Competing or collaborating; Sport combines competing and collaborating; 9 Synthesis and key variables; Friction, gaps and variability; 20:20 vision; Generic high-risk and low-risk strategic choices; Scenario analysis; Prototyping.
- 10 Strategic pioneering: Innovation and changeMitigating risk in innovation; Creative Juxtaposition; Strategic Intuition; Intelligent Ignorance; 11 Working with the Black Swan: Reputation and crisis; Working with risk in crisis; Tylenol, Perrier and other crises; 12 Organizational character; Revisiting the character profiler; Anti-fragility; Accountability and the 'agency' problem
- whose risk is it?; Risky conversations; 13 Feeling safe with risk; The role of faith; Cultural and religious influences; 14 Conclusion: The Jenga tower; For such a time as this.
- Juxtaposed in the tensions
- working with the dilemmas.