Risk
A User's Guide
(Sprache: Englisch)
From the bestselling author of Team of Teams and My Share of the Task, an entirely new way to understand risk and master the unknown.
Retired four-star general Stan McChrystal has lived a life associated with the deadly risks of combat. From his first...
Retired four-star general Stan McChrystal has lived a life associated with the deadly risks of combat. From his first...
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From the bestselling author of Team of Teams and My Share of the Task, an entirely new way to understand risk and master the unknown.Retired four-star general Stan McChrystal has lived a life associated with the deadly risks of combat. From his first day at West Point, to his years in Afghanistan, to his efforts helping business leaders navigate a global pandemic, McChrystal has seen how individuals and organizations fail to mitigate risk. Why? Because they focus on the probability of something happening instead of the interface by which it can be managed.
In this new book, General McChrystal offers a battle-tested system for detecting and responding to risk. Instead of defining risk as a force to predict, McChrystal and coauthor Anna Butrico show that there are in fact ten dimensions of control we can adjust at any given time. By closely monitoring these controls, we can maintain a healthy Risk Immune System that allows us to effectively anticipate, identify, analyze, and act upon the ever-present possibility that things will not go as planned.
Drawing on examples ranging from military history to the business world, and offering practical exercises to improve preparedness, McChrystal illustrates how these ten factors are always in effect, and how by considering them, individuals and organizations can exert mastery over every conceivable sort of risk that they might face.
We may not be able to see the future, but with McChrystal's hard-won guidance, we can improve our resistance and build a strong defense against what we know-and what we don't.
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The CommanderIt was the summer of 1965. I was ten years old, and in the weeks before my father deployed to Vietnam for another tour of combat, my parents took my five siblings and me to Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, where my mother had been raised and family abounded. My soldier father was my hero, but on a warm evening at my aunt Margaret's lovely mountain home, she showed me a black-and-white photograph of a young-looking naval officer and told me a fascinating story about another member of my family. For a ten-year-old history buff, the story was a seductive mystery.
The officer was Commander Thomas Calloway Latimore, a 1914 graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. After a twenty-
seven-year career of shipboard and shore assignments, including a tour in military intelligence and a brief stint as the governor of American Samoa, Latimore was given command of the USS Dobbin, a destroyer tender stationed at Pearl Harbor, in April 1941. The USS Dobbin supported the US Pacific Fleet that had been forward positioned from the West Coast to Hawaii by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to counter increasingly aggressive Japanese moves in the region.
By all accounts, Latimore was a quiet man and an avid hiker who liked to walk the hills overlooking the sprawling Hawaiian naval base. Once, he injured his arm while hiking, telling crew members that he had fallen. The injury required a cast, but after a time he appeared to fully recover.
In July 1941, Latimore went out again. Clad in a hat, a khaki uniform, and comfortable shoes, and carrying a walking stick, the commander left the trailhead alone, hiking into the Aiea Range above the base-and he disappeared forever. Late that day, his crew, concerned about his well-
being, unsuccessfully combed the hills before a wider effort involving local authorities joined the search, all with the same result. No sign or any clue of
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what had happened to Commander Latimore was ever found.
Like most stories, it got a bit better in the telling. I remember it described as having happened only days before the Japanese attack, so it was assumed that Latimore had unexpectedly run into Japanese agents collecting intelligence on the US fleet and they had kidnapped or killed him. No evidence supports that hypothesis, but it's too enticing to ignore.
A less romantic but far more likely risk came from the danger inherent in a fifty-one-year-old sailor hiking alone. The terrain above Pearl Harbor is not obviously treacherous, but Latimore had already been injured earlier doing the same thing. Risks are not always obvious, nor are they often legend-worthy. We may never know the truth of what happened, but in any event, Commander Thomas Calloway Latimore had vanished-his family and nation were left to wonder how things might have been different. And less than five months later, his disappearance became forever associated with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Some pondered whether it could have been part of a larger failure to effectively assess and respond to potential risks.
Though I was just ten years old that summer in 1965, I was already very familiar with the story of Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Just before 8:00 a.m. on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, six Imperial Navy carriers infiltrated the base along a northern route to a position 230 miles from Oahu before launching 353 bomber, fighter, and torpedo aircraft in two waves against a series of US naval targets on the most developed of Hawaii's islands.
By midmorning the United States counted 8 battleships severely damaged or destroyed, 11 other vessels bombed and strafed, 328 aircraft
damaged or destroyed-and 2,403 souls killed with more than 1,100 wounded. For days oil fires burned in the harbor and desperate taps could be heard from sailors caught in the bowels of capsized ships.
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Like most stories, it got a bit better in the telling. I remember it described as having happened only days before the Japanese attack, so it was assumed that Latimore had unexpectedly run into Japanese agents collecting intelligence on the US fleet and they had kidnapped or killed him. No evidence supports that hypothesis, but it's too enticing to ignore.
A less romantic but far more likely risk came from the danger inherent in a fifty-one-year-old sailor hiking alone. The terrain above Pearl Harbor is not obviously treacherous, but Latimore had already been injured earlier doing the same thing. Risks are not always obvious, nor are they often legend-worthy. We may never know the truth of what happened, but in any event, Commander Thomas Calloway Latimore had vanished-his family and nation were left to wonder how things might have been different. And less than five months later, his disappearance became forever associated with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Some pondered whether it could have been part of a larger failure to effectively assess and respond to potential risks.
Though I was just ten years old that summer in 1965, I was already very familiar with the story of Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Just before 8:00 a.m. on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, six Imperial Navy carriers infiltrated the base along a northern route to a position 230 miles from Oahu before launching 353 bomber, fighter, and torpedo aircraft in two waves against a series of US naval targets on the most developed of Hawaii's islands.
By midmorning the United States counted 8 battleships severely damaged or destroyed, 11 other vessels bombed and strafed, 328 aircraft
damaged or destroyed-and 2,403 souls killed with more than 1,100 wounded. For days oil fires burned in the harbor and desperate taps could be heard from sailors caught in the bowels of capsized ships.
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Autoren-Porträt von Stanley Mcchrystal, Anna Butrico
Stanley McChrystal retired in July 2010 as a four-star general in the U.S. Army. He was Commander International Security Assistance Forces - Afghanistan. He had previously served as Director, Joint Staff and Commander Joint Special Operations Command. The author of My Share of the Task, Team of Teams, and Leaders, he is currently a senior fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs and the cofounder of McChrystal Group, a leadership consulting firm.Anna Butrico graduated from Vanderbilt University with a degree in English after spending time at St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford. She joined McChrystal Group in 2018, where she has advised Fortune 100 companies and partnered with General McChrystal as his speechwriter. This is her first book.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Stanley Mcchrystal , Anna Butrico
- 2021, 368 Seiten, Maße: 16,5 x 23,8 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Portfolio
- ISBN-10: 0593192206
- ISBN-13: 9780593192207
- Erscheinungsdatum: 27.09.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
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Praise for Risk:An absolute masterpiece on the subject of risk! Brilliant and highly entertaining, this book is essential reading for every leader, regardless of age or experience.
Admiral William H. McRaven, U.S. Navy (Retired)
A brilliant user s guide that demonstrates how managing risk is about how we lead, rather than getting mathematical equations right. Fundamental reading for any leader looking to understand and strengthen their team s Risk Immune System.
Annie Duke, bestselling author of Thinking in Bets and How to Decide
General McChrystal is swiftly becoming our most important leadership voice. Measured, meticulous, and filled with practical, pragmatic wisdom from both war and peace, his clear-eyed, unsentimental guidance cuts to the heart of our precarious existence. A must-read leadership bible for troubling times.
James Kerr, bestselling author of Legacy
An essential playbook on mastering all dimensions of risk. For soldiers, educators, CEOs, entrepreneurs, government leaders, and everyone in between, the general captures, with precision and clarity, how staying risk fit can unleash your team s maximum potential.
Keith Krach, former under secretary of state, chairman and CEO of DocuSign and Ariba, chairman of Purdue University Board of Trustees
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