Global Risk Business Success in Turbulent Times [Hardcover]

In today's rapidly changing and increasingly complex business world, successful risk management is the key to survival and success. Risks beyond the control of the firm affect businesses more than ever before, and the fundamental job of executives is to anticipate change and manage it on the basis of an opinion about the future.The Modern History of Risk Today's Risks are Different The Idiosyncrasies of Risk Perception The Management of Risk Defining and Assessing Risk Risk Assessment Tools Mitigating Risk Communication Risk Global Risk in Historical Perspective Managing Global Risks Pulling It Together

'This book gives a valuable insight into the different aspects of risk that affect busienss success, as well as offering guidelines to the reader on how to define and assess risks.' - International Accountant

SE?N CLEARY graduated in social sciences and law at UCT, UNISA and Shiraz,Iran, and has an MBA from Henley Management College, Brunel University, UK. He was a diplomat from 1970 to 1985, serving in Tehran, Washington DC and the western USA, and as chief director in Namibia (1983-85); as well as in the economics and financial division and as head of the training division of the Department of Foreign Affairs. For the past twenty years he has been a director of companies, a visiting lecturer in global corporate strategy, economic development and conflict resolution at business schools, universities and institutes in South Africa, Europe and the USA, and a board member of a number of nonprofit foundations. He is a fellow and strategic adviser to the executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, and a member of the faculty of the Parmenides Foundation. His family home is in Constantia, Cape Town.

THIERRY MALLERET holds a PhD and MPhil in economics and an MA in international relations from the ?cole des Hautes ?tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris and St Antony's College at Oxford University. From 1988 to 1990, he was charg? de missilsß