The #1 international bestselling author of The Gray Rhino offers a bold new framework for understanding and re-shaping our relationship with risk and uncertainty to live more productive and successful lives. What drives a sixty-four-year-old woman to hurl herself over Niagara Falls in a barrel? Why do we often create bigger risks than the risks we try to avoid? Why are corporate boards newly worried about risky personal behavior by CEOs? Why are some nations quicker than others to recognize and manage risks like pandemics, technological change, and climate crisis? The answers define each person, organization, and society as distinctively as a fingerprint. Understanding the often-surprising origins of these risk fingerprints can open your eyes, inspire new habits, catalyze innovation and creativity, improve teamwork, and provide a beacon in a world that seems suddenly more uncertain than ever. How you see risk and what you do about it depend on your personality and experiences. How you make these cost-benefit calculations depend on your culture, your values, the people in the room, and even unexpected things like what you’ve eaten recently, the temperature, the music playing, or the fragrance in the air. Being alert to these often-unconscious influences will help you to seize opportunity and avoid danger. You Are What You Risk is a clarion call for an entirely new conversation about our relationship with risk and uncertainty. In this ground-breaking, accessible and eminently timely book, Michele Wucker examines why it’s so important to understand your risk fingerprint and how to make your risk relationship work better in business, life, and the world. Drawing on compelling risk stories around the world and weaving in economics, anthropology, sociology, and psychology research, Wucker bridges the divide between professional and lay risk conversations. She challenges stereotypes about risk attitudes, re-frames how gender and risk are related, and shines new light on generational differences. She shows how the new science of “risk personality” is re-shaping business and finance, how healthy risk ecosystems support economies and societies, and why embracing risk empathy can resolve conflicts. Wucker shares insights, practical tools, and proven strategies that will help you to understand what makes you who you are –and, in turn, to make better choices, both big and small.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 In 1901, Annie Edson Taylor, a 63-year-old teacher from Auburn, New York, decided to go over Niagara Falls in a pickle barrel. She reduced risks by making every preparation you could imagine. #2 Taylor’s attempt at climbing over the Falls was a failure. She had planned everything out, but her manager betrayed her, so she ended up with nothing. She lived another 20 years in poverty. #3 The life and legacy of Annie Edson Taylor are all about risk. She had the ability to choose how risky she wanted her life to be, and she did so freely. She had little to lose, and so she was able to take bigger risks. #4 The risks we take tell the world who we are. They explain everything from the mundane choices we make throughout the day to the widely impactful actions of CEOs, mayors, presidents, and world leaders.

Dreaded by many people as an inevitable part of normal aging, Dementia has displaced Cancer as the most feared health problem. Cancer continues to be a serious condition, but it is often curable, and almost always treatable. In contrast, the fear of dementia is complicated by the fear of ageing, and by muddled thinking about its relationship with Alzheimer's disease. Yet, there is no reason to be disheartened. Ever-evolving scientific evidence means that we can be increasingly optimistic about the future, and on-going research shows that the problems we dread- dementia, disability and dependency- can be controlled. By taking steps to limit damage to the brain caused by stress, sleep problems, and inactivity throughout our lives, it is more than possible to substantially reduce your risk of dementia. Equally, a loss of physical fitness (which starts long before old age) is preventable. Based on research from the Optimal Ageing Programme, and full of practical, evidence-based advice on managing the major risk factors underpinning dementia, this book will inspire readers to fight back against the modern environment and negative societal attitudes. Through simple but effective lifestyle changes that anyone can make, everyone can take positive action to increase their brainability. It is never too late to change your life, reduce your risk, and live better for longer.

We thought it would be helpful to provide a roadmap of what is covered in each chapter: Chapter 1.0: Working It: Disruption Rules We live in a disruptive world and time. Many of us are stuck in the ‘in-between’ place of yesterday’s stable world and today’s disruptive world. The goal of this book is to help you move from your ‘in-between’ to a place you want to be by helping you reach your goals through risk-based, decision-making. Chapter 2.0: Hello VUCAN® Disruption results in VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity). We are now all VUCANs - VUCA iNhabitants in today’s disruptive times. Disruption results in change, sometimes drastic, which can be uncomfortable, stressful, and even unsettling. Chapter 3.0: Are You Happy? VUCANs do not like disruption or change. Disruptive change makes VUCANs unhappy. When a person is unhappy, they are often stuck. Conversely, when a person is stuck, they are often unhappy. Chapter 4.0: Are You Stuck? Disruption among VUCANs leads to fear of change, to being risk-averse, and to stuckness in the ‘in-between place.’ Chapter 5.0: You Are What You Decide To Do Deciding is doing. To get unstuck from your in-between place is often the hardest first step. Stuckness is comfortable and safe. Deciding to get unstuck is hard and risky. Why? VUCA. Internal friction. Internal inertia. Lack of motivation. Too many obstacles. Chapter 6.0: You Are What Good You Do You decide what good stuff you want to do. Doing good means doing stuff that matters to you. Doing good means fulfilling your dream, vision, or purpose. Doing good means helping others and making a positive impact on the world around you. Doing good gets you unstuck. Doing good makes you happy. Chapter 7.0: Risk-Based, Decision-Making Risk-based, decision-making is a way to move out of your ‘in-between’ place or ‘Stuck Zone’. Once you identify your SMART goal, then minimize the obstacles that hinder you from reaching your goal. Chapter 8.0: Managing Your Risks Getting unstuck comes down to reaching goals that matter to you. To reach your dream goal, it is critical to reduce the obstacles in your way so that the goal is easily reachable. Chapter 9.0: All Risk Is Personal ‘All risk is personal’ is your willingness to decide to take on risks to achieve your goal. Expressed another way, it is the level of risk you are comfortable with and willing to accept when making decisions that help you reach your goals. In many ways, your risk tolerance is your risk lens and defines your life’s arc in terms of the choices and decisions you make. Chapter 10.0: You Are Your Biases Your biases can get you stuck. We are all influenced by our preferences, beliefs, and biases. Two questions you want to consider when making a decision to get unstuck are: 1. Do you know your biases that can impact your decision-making? and 2. How do you reduce these biases? Chapter 11.0: Making It Stick‘Making it stick’ means doing good and being happy become your habits. It ensures what you do has lasting, positive, and effective value in your life. Chapter 12.0: If Not Now? When? We are now all VUCANs in a very disruptive world. What’s your call-to-action to design your future-self – NOW!

A healthy brain is the key to living longer and looking younger. In Use Your Brain to Change Your Age, clinical neuroscientist and bestselling author Dr Daniel G. Amen shares simple steps to boost your brain, helping you to look, feel and think younger. Based on the approach that has helped thousands of people at the Amen Clinics and the most up-to-date research collected from over 70,000 brain scans, Dr Amen's breakthrough programme leads you through ten simple anti-aging steps that will also dramatically decrease the risk for Alzheimer's disease. You will learn how to: - Boost your memory, mood, attention and energy - Decrease your risk of Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia - Reduce the outward signs of aging and make your skin more beautiful - Promote the healing of brain damage due to injury, strokes, substance abuse and toxic exposure - Dramatically increase your chances of living longer and looking younger

This book will run you through the ambit of just what risk management is. It will show you how you can apply it to your business. It will discuss the principles of risk management, and the processes involved, and also give you an idea of the application of these processes to a couple of businesses. The rules of risk management are mostly universal, and by tweaking them slightly, you can apply them to any enterprise. You will be armed with the essential tools to devise a risk management strategy that will, in effect, maximize the potential of your business to realize opportunities. This is, after all, the ultimate purpose of risk management!

Employees make dozens of day-to-day decisions—and any one of them could come back to haunt you, even when the decision does not seem to have hidden or unknown ramifications. That is why your organisation must have a protocol in place for identifying and mitigating all major business risks long before it is needed. At the strategic level, risk management and strategic management are intertwined. Using this book, learn how to apply powerful tools and approaches to make your planning processes more effective and flexible and build a set of decision-making processes based on plain language. Author, Ron Rael, uses quality concepts/language (TQM & Six Sigma) to define the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) process and value of prevention, while showing how these elements are both necessary and highly desired in an organisation’s strategic decision-making. ERM extends to your everyday business decisions because employees take actions and make daily choices that could have a detrimental effect on your profits and business’s longevity and future. This book will provide a best practices view on the latest developments in ERM deliver how-to guidance on developing ERM processes at the enterprise and department levels facilitate enterprise-wide ERM participation via practical information and examples deliver cross-functional management and implementation of ERM

In this inspiring novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, the life of a Parisian woman changes in a heartbeat when she’s trapped by wildfires in Napa Valley. Born to a French mother and American father, graceful Dahlia de Beaumont has been sole owner and CEO of the venerable family perfume business based in Paris since her early twenties, following the death of her parents. For twenty-five years, after losing her young skier husband in an avalanche, her life has centered on running Lambert Perfumes and being a devoted single mother to her four now-adult children: indecisive Charles, volatile Alexa, kind-hearted business visionary Delphine, and dreamy artist Emma. Now fifty-six, she has an “arrangement” with a married French man but has been questioning that relationship. Dahlia comes to San Francisco on a routine business trip to check on her stores in the States. But shortly after her arrival, brush fires ignite in Napa Valley. Watching the sweeping devastation on the news, Dahlia is moved to help. But doing so will bring unforeseen consequences that endanger not only her life, but her entire future. Forced to remain in San Francisco in the aftermath, she will make unexpected connections while also fighting to protect all she has worked for. What Dahlia learns will provide a new perspective of her life, forever changing what really matters to her and what comes next for her journey. With this uplifting novel, Danielle Steel beautifully dramatizes how life’s unforeseen challenges can sow the seeds for growth and a fresh chance at love—if one is willing to take the risk.

Clear-Cut Ways to Manage Project Risk If you're a typical project manager, you're probably aware of the importance of risk management but may not have the time or expertise to develop a full-blown plan. This book is a quick and practical guide to applying the disciplines of proven risk management practices without the rigor of complex processes. Part of the Project Manager's Spotlight series from Harbor Light Press, this straightforward book offers solutions to real-life risk scenarios. Inside, best-selling author Kim Heldman highlights critical components of risk management and equips you with tools, techniques, checklists, and templates you can put to use immediately. By following a realistic case study from start to finish, you'll see how a project manager deals with each concept. Ultimately, this book will help you anticipate, prevent, and alleviate major project risks. Project Manager's Spotlight on Risk Management teaches you how to Look for and document risk Anticipate why projects fail Prevent scope and schedule risks Analyze and prioritize risks Develop, implement, and monitor risk response plans And much more!

This book offers a practical answer for the non-mathematician to all the questions any businessman always wanted to ask about risk quantification, and never dare to ask. Enterprise-wide risk management (ERM) is a key issue for board of directors worldwide. Its proper implementation ensures transparent governance with all stakeholders’ interests integrated into the strategic equation. Furthermore, Risk quantification is the cornerstone of effective risk management,at the strategic and tactical level, covering finance as well as ethics considerations. Both downside and upside risks (threats & opportunities) must be assessed to select the most efficient risk control measures and to set up efficient risk financing mechanisms. Only thus will an optimum return on capital and a reliable protection against bankruptcy be ensured, i.e. long term sustainable development. Within the ERM framework, each individual operational entity is called upon to control its own risks, within the guidelines set up by the board of directors, whereas the risk financing strategy is developed and implemented at the corporate level to optimise the balance between threats and opportunities, systematic and non systematic risks. This book is designed to equip each board member, each executives and each field manager, with the tool box enabling them to quantify the risks within his/her jurisdiction to all the extend possible and thus make sound, rational and justifiable decisions, while recognising the limits of the exercise. Beyond traditional probability analysis, used since the 18th Century by the insurance community, it offers insight into new developments like Bayesian expert networks, Monte-Carlo simulation, etc. with practical illustrations on how to implement them within the three steps of risk management, diagnostic, treatment and audit. With a foreword by Catherine Veret and an introduction by Kevin Knight.