Highwire Management: Risk-Taking Tactics for Leaders, Innovators, and Trailblazers (Paperback)

Part One: The Value of Risk Taking.

1. The New Realities: Walking the Management Highwire.

2. Excellence and Innovation: The Rewards of Risk Taking.

Part Two: Building Strong Risk-Taking Skills.

3. Assess Your Boundaries, Traits, and Assumptions.

4. Reframe Your Perceptions: Avoiding the Distortion Factors.

5. Improve Your Decision Making: Taking the Right Risk at the Right Time.

6. Confront Your Emotions: Handling the Roller Coaster Rides.

7. Reduce the Dangers: Risk Taking Is Not Risk Free.

8. Survive the Failures: Dealing with the Downside of Risk.

Part Three: Keeping Risk Alive: Encouraging Effective Risk Taking in Yourself and Others.

9. Nurture Your Skills: Learning by Taking Action.

10. Foster Risk Taking in Others,

Appendix: Research Notes.