Make Your Own Luck: 12 Practical Steps to Taking Smarter Risks in Business
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (823 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1591840775 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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Stevenson is the Sarofim-Rock Professor at Harvard Business School and senior associate provost for Harvard University. and is now president of The Hillcrest Group Inc., a strategic consulting firm. Eileen C. She is the author of Fad Surfing in the Boardroom.Howard H. . Shapiro enjoyed a long career at McKinsey & Co
Stevenson have compressed the complex skills of making your own luck—which they call predictive intelligence—into twelve easy and practical steps. It teaches readers how to build their ability to bet smart and how to use this ability to win in business and in other areas of life.. Humans are gambling animals—and not just when we invest in the stock market. These steps will get you the results you want with the least risk and the most upside. Make Your Own Luck is full of jokes, brain teasers, anecdotes, and unexpected case studies from the Battle of Antietam to the diaper war between Huggies and Pampers. Every time we take an action—deciding which job applicant to hire, which product to launch— we are betting our time, reputation, effort, and money in the hope of achieving some future result. Some people base their business bets on dumb lu
A subjective methodology for making messy decisions John C. Dunbar This book presents a methodology for making messy decisions quickly and most important decisions are messy. It is doubtful that anyone decided to choose a spouse based on some type of quantitative matrix.The authors, Eileen Shapiro and Howard Stevenson, lay out a twelve point methodology revolving around key questions that must be answered before a businessperson decides to take a business risk.Th. Barcity said Just the tool to explain decision making to others!. A few years ago, I sat helplessly watching a friend invest too much money in a dotcom and hang on and on and on, always convinced because they were expanding that the stock would recover. I could not explain the sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach sufficiently to warn her. She lost a bundle and I felt terrible as the stock wound down and down. Along comes Make Your Own Luck and now I know wha. If almost every decision is a bet, how to improve the odds? Robert Morris Frankly, I did not know quite what to expect as I began to read this book but it soon became obvious that Shapiro and Stevenson have much of value to say about the relevance of gambling to business organizations as well as to an individual's business career and personal life. They offer a concept which they call "Predictive Intelligence" (PI): "the ability to act in the face of uncertainty to brin
. She is the author of Fad Surfing in the Boardroom.Howard H. About the AuthorEileen C. Stevenson is the Sarofim-Rock Professor at Harvard Business School and senior associate provost for Harvard University. Shapiro enjoyed a long career at McKinsey & Co. and is now president of The Hillcrest Group Inc., a strategic consulting firm