A financial times book of the month pick for April! Is it worth swimming in shark-infested waters to surf a 50-foot, career-record wave? Is it riskier to make an action movie or a horror movie? Should sex workers forfeit 50 percent of their income for added security or take a chance and keep the extra money? Most people wouldn't expect an economist to have an answer to these questions-orr to other questions of daily life, such as who to date or how early to leave for the airport. But those people haven't met Allison schrager, an economist and award-winning journalist who has spent her career examining how people manage risk in their lives and careers. Whether we realize it or not, we all take risks large and small every day. Even the most cautious among us cannot opt out-thee question is always which risks to take, not whether to take them at all. What most of us don't know is how to measure those risks and maximise the chances of getting what we want out of life. In an economist walks into a brothel, schrager equips readers with five principles for dealing with risk, principles used by some of the world's most interesting risk takers. For instance, she interviews a professional poker player about how to stay rational when the stakes are high, a paparazzo in Manhattan about how to spot different kinds of risk, horse breeders in Kentucky about how to diversify risk and minimizes losses, and a war General who led troops in Iraq about how to prepare for what we don't see coming. When you start to look at risky decisions through schrager's new framework, you can increase the upside to any situation and better mitigate the downside.
HIGH FIVE THE MAGIC OF WORKING TOGETHER
Kenneth H. Blanchard,Sheldon Bowles
HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS LIMITED
ONE MINUTE FOR YOURSELF
SPENCER JOHNSON
SUN TZU WAS A SISSY
STANLEY BING
Leadership That Gets Results Harvard Business Review Classics
DANIEL GOLEMAN
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW PRESS/PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GROUP
On Strategy HBRs 10 Must Reads on Strategy for Healthcare Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business Review
Competing in the New World of Work How Radical Adaptability Separates the Best from the Rest
KEITH FERRAZZI
PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GROUP
The Geeta and the Art of Successful Management
CHAKRAVARTY AJANTA E.
RUPA PUBLICATIONS INDIA PVT. LTD.
The New One Minute Manager
BLANCHARD KEN,JOHNSON SPENCER
THORSONS/HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS LIMITED
NASTY RICHES
SINGH M. P.
PRAKASH BOOKS INDIA PVT. LTD.
QUICK AND NIMBLE
ADAM BRYANT
Fill up your details to notify you when this book will be available