Entrepreneurs and business owners face risks every day. Competitors, markets, technology, politics, climate, health, and more can all have a dramatic impact on your business and career. Here you’ll find new, upcoming, and classic books on risk awareness and mitigation. The author is a renowned researcher, teacher, and risk avoidance practitioner.
The Art of Uncertainty: How to Survive Chance, Ignorance, Risk, and Luck
art of uncertainty
Written by David Spiegelhalter
The book, which will be published in March, has already been praised for being lively, funny, insightful and witty, not in terms often applied to numbers. The author, who was knighted for his research in medical statistics, uses real-world examples and more than 60 illustrations to explain life’s challenges, including balancing the risks and benefits of medicine, predicting wins and losses in sports, and how to face the unknown. Highlight uncertainty.
Preventing Business Risk: A Complete Guide to Choosing Smart Insurance
Prevent business risks
Written by Michael Gay and Patrick Wright
The right insurance policy is key to reducing risks such as lawsuits, accidents, and other losses. But how do you know which type and amount of coverage is right for your situation? Gay and Wright clearly explain every aspect of insurance, providing an easy-to-understand guide to avoiding and mitigating business risks. Provide.
On the Edge: The Art of Betting Everything
on the edge
Written by Nate Silver
In his third bestselling book, Silver focuses on “professional risk-takers” such as poker players, hedge fund managers, crypto gurus, and art collectors, discovering the common characteristics that made them rich and powerful, and how they It focuses on how the (sometimes flawed) mindset of The relationship between technology and the world economy.
Shocks, crises and misinformation: How to assess true macroeconomic risks
shock, crisis, misinformation
Written by Philip Carlson-Schlezak and Paul Schwartz
The Financial Times’ Best Books of 2024, Shocks and Crisis, helps business leaders avoid the paradoxical trap of being fooled by misinformation and failing to recognize real changes in local and global markets and economies. It is intended to be.
Playing with reality: How games have shaped our world
play with reality
Written by Kelly Clancy
The Economist called the book “provocative and fascinating” and named it one of the best books of 2024, along with The Guardian. Clancy, a neuroscientist and physicist, reviews how games have shaped human culture from the Enlightenment to the present day, illustrating game theory. It still underlies many assumptions in economics, politics, and technology.
How to listen to the market: Risks, myths, and opportunities
How to listen to what the market is saying
Written by Lawrence G. MacDonald and James Patrick Robinson
MacDonald is a former vice president of Lehman Brothers and the author of the best-selling book “The Colossal Failure of Common Sense,” which depicts the collapse of Lehman Brothers. In this new book, he challenges old assumptions about economics and provides thought-provoking insights into what he believes is a fundamentally changed global economy and the factors that will shape what he believes is its future.
Managing political risk: Fundamentals and tools for managers and entrepreneurs
Managing political risk
Written by Marc-Felix Otto
Geopolitical risks can put companies at risk, shake up entire industries, and even threaten national economies. Otto, a strategy and management consultant with international expertise, shares his approach to identifying, avoiding and managing such risks while finding ways to turn them into competitive advantage.
A crash course in crises: Macroeconomic concepts for recovery, collapse, and recovery.
Crash course on crisis
Written by Markus K. Brunnermeier and Ricardo Reis
Two top economists write clearly based on the latest cutting-edge research and draw lessons from real-life case studies to explain what we know about the financial crisis and how it spread. Explain how it can get worse.
Risk: User’s Guide
Risk: User’s Guide
General Stanley McChrystal, written by Anna Butrico
The author, a retired four-star US general, presents a system for detecting and responding to risks developed from his extensive military and business experience. It uses a simple framework that defines 10 key risk dimensions and provides practical exercises to help readers address each dimension.
The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
biggest cliff
Written by Maria Konnikova
Konnikova, a psychologist, became a tournament-winning professional poker player after a string of personal misfortunes. She shares what she’s learned about human nature, good decisions, and luck in this acclaimed New York Times bestseller.
Battle of the Gods: A surprising story of danger
against the gods
Written by Peter L. Bernstein
This global bestseller was published in 1998 and remains the top risk management title on Amazon. Bernstein’s lively and fascinating history argues that the concept of risk drove humanity from primitive beliefs in fortune-tellers and oracles to the creation of today’s sophisticated risk management methods and tools.
