Rethinking Risk: How Companies Sabotage Themselves and What They Must Do Differently

Rethinking Risk: How Companies Sabotage Themselves and What They Must Do Differently

by Joseph W. Koletar
Released July 2010
Publisher(s): AMACOM
ISBN: 9780814414965

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Book description

This book is about the mistakes of well-intentioned, intelligent people who made the wrong assumptions, or trusted the wrong people, or did not understand their corporate environment as well as they thought they did. It’s an attempt to answer the question “How do we prevent this in the future?”

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Author’s Note (1/2)
  3. Author’s Note (2/2)
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction (1/2)
  6. Introduction (2/2)
  7. 1. Observations About Risk (1/4)
  8. 1. Observations About Risk (2/4)
  9. 1. Observations About Risk (3/4)
  10. 1. Observations About Risk (4/4)
  11. 2. Fraud as an Example of Risk (1/4)
  12. 2. Fraud as an Example of Risk (2/4)
  13. 2. Fraud as an Example of Risk (3/4)
  14. 2. Fraud as an Example of Risk (4/4)
  15. 3. Frontline Interviews with Risk Management Experts (1/8)
  16. 3. Frontline Interviews with Risk Management Experts (2/8)
  17. 3. Frontline Interviews with Risk Management Experts (3/8)
  18. 3. Frontline Interviews with Risk Management Experts (4/8)
  19. 3. Frontline Interviews with Risk Management Experts (5/8)
  20. 3. Frontline Interviews with Risk Management Experts (6/8)
  21. 3. Frontline Interviews with Risk Management Experts (7/8)
  22. 3. Frontline Interviews with Risk Management Experts (8/8)
  23. 4. How We Attempt to Deal with Risk (1/5)
  24. 4. How We Attempt to Deal with Risk (2/5)
  25. 4. How We Attempt to Deal with Risk (3/5)
  26. 4. How We Attempt to Deal with Risk (4/5)
  27. 4. How We Attempt to Deal with Risk (5/5)
  28. 5. Why Things Go Wrong (1/11)
  29. 5. Why Things Go Wrong (2/11)
  30. 5. Why Things Go Wrong (3/11)
  31. 5. Why Things Go Wrong (4/11)
  32. 5. Why Things Go Wrong (5/11)
  33. 5. Why Things Go Wrong (6/11)
  34. 5. Why Things Go Wrong (7/11)
  35. 5. Why Things Go Wrong (8/11)
  36. 5. Why Things Go Wrong (9/11)
  37. 5. Why Things Go Wrong (10/11)
  38. 5. Why Things Go Wrong (11/11)
  39. 6. How Risk Is Discovered (1/2)
  40. 6. How Risk Is Discovered (2/2)
  41. 7. Organizational Intelligence—Practical Reality (1/6)
  42. 7. Organizational Intelligence—Practical Reality (2/6)
  43. 7. Organizational Intelligence—Practical Reality (3/6)
  44. 7. Organizational Intelligence—Practical Reality (4/6)
  45. 7. Organizational Intelligence—Practical Reality (5/6)
  46. 7. Organizational Intelligence—Practical Reality (6/6)
  47. 8. Organizational Intelligence—Thought and Theory (1/4)
  48. 8. Organizational Intelligence—Thought and Theory (2/4)
  49. 8. Organizational Intelligence—Thought and Theory (3/4)
  50. 8. Organizational Intelligence—Thought and Theory (4/4)
  51. 9. Using Consultants (1/2)
  52. 9. Using Consultants (2/2)
  53. 10. Concluding Thoughts (1/3)
  54. 10. Concluding Thoughts (2/3)
  55. 10. Concluding Thoughts (3/3)
  56. Glossary
    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D
    5. E
    6. F
    7. G
    8. H
    9. I
    10. K
    11. L
    12. M
    13. N
    14. O
    15. R
    16. S
    17. T
    18. U
  57. Index
    1. A
    2. B
    3. C
    4. D
    5. E
    6. F
    7. G
    8. H
    9. I
    10. J
    11. K
    12. L
    13. M
    14. N
    15. O
    16. P
    17. Q
    18. R
    19. S
    20. T
    21. U
    22. V
    23. W
    24. Y
    25. Z

Product information

  • Title: Rethinking Risk: How Companies Sabotage Themselves and What They Must Do Differently
  • Author(s): Joseph W. Koletar
  • Release date: July 2010
  • Publisher(s): AMACOM
  • ISBN: 9780814414965