Description
Risks are a part of a fully lived life-and are essential for personal and professional advancement. Right Risk draws on the experiences and insights of successful risk-takers (including the author's own experiences as a daredevil high diver) to detail ten principles you can use to take risks with greater intelligence and confidence.
Right Risk taking more deliberate and intentional risks. It will teach you how to determine which risks to take and which to avoid, how to balance the need to take more risks with the need to preserve your safety, and how to confront all those people who tell you what a mistake it would be to take the risk.
Right Risk will teach you to make wise and courageous choices-to confidently face life's challenges and take advantage of life's opportunities. It will help you become more comfortable with the uncomfortable, more courageous in facing fear, and more prepared to take the risk you've always wanted to take. It will help you take giant leaps with your life!
Level: Intermediate
ISBN: 1576752461
ISBN-13: 9781576752463
Format: Paperback, 200pp
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.
Edition Number: 1
Pub date: 2003
Contents
Introduction: All Life Is Risk
Part One. Risk Is Everywhere
It's Risky Out There
The Right Risk
Part Two. Readying for the Risk
Principle 1. Find Your Golden Silence
Principle 2. Defy Inertia
Principle 3. Write Your Risk Scripts
Principle 4. Turn On the Risk Pressure
Part Three. Relish the Moment
Principle 5. Put Yourself on the Line
Principle 6. Make Your Fear Work for You
Principle 7. Have the Courage to Be Courageous
Part Four. Commit to the Risk
Principle 8. Be Perfectly Imperfect
Principle 9. Trespass Continuously
Principle 10. Expose Yourself
Part Five. Reaping the Rewards of Right Risk
The Rightest Risk of All
Notes
Index
Book author
Book author
Bill Treasurer is a writer, speaker, consultant, and founder of Giant Leap Consulting, Inc., an organizational development company whose motto is Daring to Excel. From 1996-2002, Treasurer was a consultant with Accenture, a large management and technology consulting company. After working in the areas of executive communications and change management, Treasurer became a full-time internal executive coach on Accenture's largest client engagement. Prior to joining Accenture, Bill was a vice president at Executive Adventure Inc., an Atlanta-based team-building company where he facilitated corporate team-building events.
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