Handbook of Research on Leveraging Risk and Uncertainties for Effective Project Management
The proper understanding and managing of project risks and uncertainties is crucial to any organisation. It is of paramount importance at all phases of project development and execution to avoid poor project results from meager economics, overspending, reputation and environmental damage, and even loss of life. The Handbook of Research on Leveraging Risk and Uncertainties […]
What is world-class risk management? Why do so many top executives and board members have difficulty seeing how enterprise risk management makes a positive contribution to the success of the organisation? Norman Marks is recognised as a global thought leader in risk management. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Risk Management and […]
World-Class Risk-Management
What is world-class risk management? Why do so many top executives and board members have difficulty seeing how enterprise risk management makes a positive contribution to the success of the organisation? Norman Marks is recognised as a global thought leader in risk management. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Risk Management and […]
The No-Nonsense Guide to Science
Science is the great intellectual adventure, but can also be an instrument of profit, power, and privilege. Wrongly used, it might yet make the twenty-first century our last. To make sense of this, we need to let go of old ideas and assumptions. This No-Nonsense Guide to Science introduces a new way of thinking about […]
Thinking, Fast and Slow
The New York Times Bestseller, acclaimed by author such as Freakonomics co-author Steven D. Levitt, Black Swan author Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Nudge co-author Richard Thaler, Thinking Fast and Slow offers a whole new look at the way our minds work, and how we make decisions.Why is there more chance we’ll believe something if it’s in a bold type face?Why are judges more likely to […]
Risk Savvy
A fascinating, practical guide to making better decisions with our money, health and personal lives from Gerd Gigerenzer, the author of Reckoning with Risk.Risk-taking is essential for innovation, fun, and the courage to face the uncertainties in life. Yet for many important decisions, we’re often presented with statistics and probabilities that we don’t really understand and […]
Boomerang: The Biggest Bust
With rare insight based on his first-hand commodity trading experience, Mark Douglas demonstrates why the beliefs learned to function effectively in society are often formidable psychological barriers in trading. “The Disciplined Trader” helps you join the elite few who have learned how to control their trading behaviour by developing a systematic, step-by-step approach for winning […]
Risk Intelligence: How to Live with Uncertainty
There is a special kind of intelligence for dealing with risk and uncertainty. It doesn’t correlate with IQ and most psychologists fail to spot it because it is found in such a disparate, rag-tag group of people such as weather-forecasters, professional gamblers and hedge-fund managers. This book shows just how important risk intelligence is. […]
The Human Element: A Guide to Human Behaviour in the Shipping Industry
Based on a wide range of consultations with maritime organisations, the guide was produced by organisational psychologists GS Partnership Ltd, for consortium partners UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency, BP Shipping, Teekay Marine Services, and the Standard P&I Club. Aimed at everyone in the shipping industry, the Guide explains the fundamental aspects of human behaviour, […]
The Hour Between Dog and Wolf
Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ exposes the excesses of the trading floor – but if you want to know more about the biology that drives this risky business, neuroscientist John Coates can explain it all.Shortlisted for the 2012 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award and the Wellcome […]
Managing the Mist: How to Develop Winning Mind-Sets and Create High Performing Teams
Are you a leader or coach who wants to create a high-performance team? Have you ever wondered why you lose your temper or feel paralysed by the fear of failure? In a world that is full of rapid change the mist often surrounds us reducing our clarity and decision making Andrew Sillitoe successfully provides insights […]
Traders: Risks, Decisions, and Management in Financial Markets
This is a book about traders in financial markets: what they do, the kind of people they are, how they perceive the world they inhabit, how they make decisions and take risks. This is also a book about how traders are managed – the best and the worst examples – and about the institutions […]
The Missing Link in Cognition: Origins of self-reflective consciousness
How do we develop self-awareness, or a sense of self? One of the most popular theories is that language plays a major role: language and the narrative form allow us to develop a sense of self because this sense is dependent upon representational thought and the psychological manipulation of representations. Some scholars argue against […]
Financial Risk Taking: An Introduction to the Psychology of Trading and Behavioural Finance
In Financial Risk Taking, trader and psychologist Mike Elvin explores the complex relationship between human behaviour patterns and the markets, offering the reader a context in which to assess their own strengths and weaknesses as investors. The book offers an apposite and uncomplicated system of skills development in the form of competences and competencies […]
The Mental Edge in Trading : Adapt Your Personality Traits and Control Your Emotions to Make Smarter Investments
The Mental Edge in Trading explains the critical link between successful trading and personality traits–and it gives you the tools to use this information to make smarter trades. Dr. Williams tested proven winning traders who were managing billions of dollars to see what the great winning traders had in common, what personality traits made […]
Understanding and Managing Risk Attitude
Despite many years of development, risk management remains problematic for the majority of organisations. One common challenge is the human dimension, in other words, the way people perceive risk and risk management. Risk management processes and techniques are operated by people, each of whom is a complex individual, influenced by many different factors. And […]
The Disciplined Trader: Developing Winning Attitudes
With rare insight based on his first-hand commodity trading experience, Mark Douglas demonstrates why the beliefs learned to function effectively in society are often formidable psychological barriers in trading. “The Disciplined Trader” helps you join the elite few who have learned how to control their trading behaviour by developing a systematic, step-by-step approach for […]
Leadership Risk: A Guide for Private Equity and Strategic Investors
This book is a practical guide for private equity investors. It sets out a framework for understanding, assessing and managing the risks associated with senior management during the due diligence process of an acquisition. This provides an essential input into the wider due diligence review and a sound basis for managing the investment after […]
Risk
Risk compensation postulates that everyone has a “risk thermostat” and that safety measures that do not affect the setting of the thermostat will be circumvented by behaviour that re-establishes the level of risk with which people were originally comfortable. It explains why, for example, motorists drive faster after a bend in the road […]
How Risky Is It, Really?: Why Our Fears Don’t Always Match the Facts
Do you worry more about radiation from nuclear power or from the sun? Are you more afraid of getting cancer than heart disease? Are you safer talking on your cell phone or using a hands-free device when you drive? Do you think global warming is a serious threat to your health? GET THE […]
The Puritan Gift: Reclaiming the American Dream Amidst Global Financial Chaos
The collapse of Lehman Brothers and other Wall Street institutions sent shock waves around the world. But this was just the beginning. Whole nations have been dragged to the brink of bankruptcy. Banks on both sides of the Atlantic have been nationalised. The stock market is out of control and the global economy […]
The Failure of Risk Management: Why it’s Broken and How to Fix it
An essential guide to the calibrated risk analysis approach The Failure of Risk Management takes a close look at misused and misapplied basic analysis methods and shows how some of the most popular “risk management” methods are no better than astrology! Using examples from the 2008 credit crisis, natural disasters, outsourcing to China, engineering […]