Making Risky and Important Decisions

Making Risky and Important Decisions: A Leader's Guide offers a practical insight to leaders who need to make good decisions in risky and important situations. The authors describe a process for making risk-intelligent decisions, explaining complex ideas simply, and mapping a route through the myriad, interrelated influences when groups make decisions that matter. The approach puts the decision-maker--you--at the center and explains how you can think and act differently to make better decisions more of the time. The book shows how to:

• Determine an appropriate level of risk
• Make decisions in uncertain and turbulent conditions
• Understand how risks are perceived to identify them accurately
• Develop new behaviors to improve decision-making

Making Risky and Important Decisions builds on earlier ground-breaking publications from these two recognized thought-leaders. Their first book together, Understanding and Managing Risk Attitude, brought together the language of risk and risk-taking with the language of emotional intelligence and emotional literacy. Managing Group Risk Attitude followed, and focused on decision-making groups, creating new insights and frameworks. Both books are positioned as specialist textbooks, despite their relevance to real-world situations. A Short Guide to Risk Appetite for the first time brought together the concepts of risk appetite and risk attitude into one place, cutting through confusing terminology and confused thinking to create a practical way of understanding 'how much risk is too much risk'.

This latest instalment from Murray-Webster and Hillson takes the breadth of their previous work, adds new insights and thinking, and distills it into a highly usable guide for hard-pressed leaders.