Tabla de Contenidos: “…Strategic Planning Can't Predict the Future: Strategy Development Is a Vision Quest; The downside of having a strategy is missed opportunities; Managing by the numbers only manages the numbers; Predicting the future is risky business; Planning for the future and predicting the future are not the same thing; 2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Why Efficiency Matters -- Levels of Efficiency -- Target Areas of Efficiency -- Case Study -- Summary -- Reference -- 2 Is Finding the Right Leadership Sponsor Risky Business? -- Sponsorship -- Summary -- Reference -- 3 Leadership Guide to Maximizing Career Value Potential -- Why Leadership Matters -- Leadership Value Curve -- Leadership Disruption Lattice -- Case in Point -- Summary -- Reference -- 4 The Risk of a Leadership Brand: Is It a Stamp of Approval or Scarlet Letter? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Disrupting the Individual -- Shooting for the Stars -- The Power of O -- Oprah -- Reinventing Your Business -- Disrupting Your Nation -- Starting Successfully -- (S)-Set a Goal -- (T)-Think About How to Get There and Plan for Success -- Chapter 7: Abandoning Your Comfort Zone -- Risk It -- Comfort Zone Versus Twilight Zone -- Risk-Taking Impacts the World -- Journey to America: In Search of Religious Freedom -- Risky Business -- The L'Amyx Tea Bar -- That's Right, My Sister-in-Law -- Amazon -- Personal Risk, Incredible Growth -- Into the Light -- No One Raised a Hand -- Chapter 8: When the Going Gets Tough -- Pairing Risk with Perseverance Is Necessary for Your Ultimate Success -- Staying the Path, Eyes Ahead -- Insights Help You Reassess Your Goals -- The Blind Man Riding on the Back of a Blind Tiger -- A Cinderella Story -- Insights Help You Persevere -- Taking the Long View and the Long Road -- Coming from Nowhere, Going Somewhere -- Fail Again and Again -- Into the Heart of Darkness -- Then Everything Changed -- Passion Play -- Chapter 9: Verify and Magnify Your Success -- Periodically Check to See If You Are Meeting Goals and Stretching Yourself to Achieve Success -- Verify -- Personal Growth -- But Then the Impossible Happened -- Quantification of Outcomes -- Are You Coasting? …”

“…Mortgage credit derivatives are a risky business, especially of late. Written by an expert author team of UBS practitioners-Laurie Goodman, Shumin Li, Douglas Lucas, and Thomas Zimmerman-along with Frank Fabozzi of Yale University, Subprime Mortgage Credit Derivatives covers state-of-the-art instruments and strategies for managing a portfolio of mortgage credits in today's volatile climate.Divided into four parts, this book addresses a variety of important topics, including mortgage credit (non-agency, first and second lien), mortgage securitizations (alternate structures and su…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Foreign Financing: A Different Animal -- Risky Business: Absorbing Foreign Saving -- Not All Foreign Saving Is Created Equal -- Different Risks for Different Financial Flows -- Financial Integration Is No Cure -- Safety First -- Notes -- 6 Running Out of Time: The Demographics of Saving -- More Elderly with More Needs -- Facing the Challenge: More and Better Savings -- Fulfilling Promises -- Saving for the Future -- More-and Better-Savings to Enhance Growth -- How Is the Region Preparing for the Future? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Businesses of Tomorrow Will Be Anything but Business as Usual -- A Reorientation of Business Innovation: Regeneration -- Principles for regenerative innovation -- As Regenerative Business Rises, Leaders Look to Technology -- Re-applying Our Digital Platforms -- The Platform Opportunity for Regenerative Innovation -- Regenerative Potential for Platform Models -- Network effects and scale -- Digital Platforms Exemplifying Regenerative Potential through Network Effects -- Coordination and collaboration -- Digital Platforms Exemplifying Regenerative Potential through Coordination &amp -- Collaboration -- Access and localization -- Digital Platforms Exemplifying Regenerative Potential of Localization -- Risky Business: The Perils and Paradox of Digital Platforms for Regenerative Innovation -- From Flywheel to Adaptive Cycle: A Framework for Regenerative Innovation with Platforms…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Implementing SMS -- Putting It Together -- Bringing SMS Down to Earth -- The Big Picture -- Risky Business -- Big Picture -- Narrowing the Focus -- Mitigation -- Changes -- Perspective -- Process -- SMS for the Long Term -- Passenger Safety -- Create Expectations -- Practice Makes Perfect -- The Name of the Game -- Flight Attendants -- Emergency Response Planning -- The Plan -- Elements of the Plan -- Implement It -- Chapter 9. …”

“…Risk consideration is central to more accurate post-crisis valuation Corporate Valuation presents the most up-to-date tools and techniques for more accurate valuation in a highly volatile, globalized, and risky business environment. This insightful guide takes a multidisciplinary approach, considering both accounting and financial principles, with a practical focus that uses case studies and numerical examples to illustrate major concepts. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The birth of Narrative Mapping: A way to organize and deliver your story Rediscovery of narratives and storytelling: breaking through the blah, blah, blah Listen, I'm ready for a story Think about your audience: Journalism 2.0 and the elements of a narrative Warning #1: Keep stories short Warning #2: Don't fall in love with fables and the "Once Upon A Time" trap Warning #3: Don't just promote storytelling; teach it Narrative Map (de)constructed Seeing and hearing is believing: The story of the evolution of commerce CHAPTER EIGHT Talk it: Controlled Conversations and TALC Tracks Risky business trip Controlled conversations are a game of tennis, not golf TALC Tracks -- A structure for balance and brevity Be prepared for anything Audience, Audience, Audience. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Goals Must Be Agreed Upon 77 -- Responsibility for Achieving Goals Must Be Identified 78 -- Establishing Goals Step-by-Step 78 -- Developing the Project Charter 79 -- Working with the Sponsor on a Case for Change 80 -- Putting It in Writing 81 -- The Components of the Charter 82 -- Seeing Eye to Eye 83 -- 8 Managing Risks and Constraints 87 -- The Three Common Types of Risk 88 -- Risk Areas 88 -- Don't Forget Business Risks 89 -- The Ultimate Risk: Acts of God 90 -- Developing a Risk Breakdown Structure 90 -- Risk Tolerance 91 -- The Basics of Risk Management 92 -- Tracking Risks with a Risk Register95 -- Constraints vs Risks 95 -- Constraints to Consider 96 -- The Budget 96 -- The Schedule 97 -- The People 97 -- The Real World 98 -- Facilities and Equipment98 -- Risky Business 98 -- Part 3: The Project Planning Phase 101 -- 9 The Breakdown of Work 103 -- Breaking Your Project into Bite-Sized Pieces 103 -- The WBS and Your Project 104 -- Organizing the WBS106 -- Five Steps to the WBS 107 -- Identifying Dependencies 108 -- Making Sure You Have Identified All the Work 109 -- Defining the Deliverable in the Work Package 110 -- Refining the WBS 112 -- 10 Establishing the Schedule of Work 115 -- The Schedule or the Budget: Which Is First? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Capability Maturity Model - continuous monitoring level 2 -- Scenario 1 - asset management/vulnerability scanning asset inventory -- Phase initial -- Information gathering -- Developing possible solutions -- Phase A -- Procedure RASCI (example) -- Phase B -- Regional data centers -- Local office environment -- Phase C -- Scenario 2 - security awareness/continuous monitoring/IT helpdesk -- Phase initial -- Information gathering -- Developing possible solutions -- Phase A -- Procedure RASCI (example) -- Phase B and C - sample questions -- Just another day part 2 -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Putting Out the Fires -- Quick review -- Overview - incident response -- Preparation and prevention -- Detection and analysis -- Containment, eradication, and recovery -- Post-incident activity -- Incident response process and F3EAD integration -- Intelligence process tie-in -- Capability Maturity Model - incident response -- Initial phase -- Phase A -- Phase B -- Phase C -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Vulnerability Management -- A quick recap -- The Common Vulnerability Scoring System calculator -- Base metric group -- Temporal metric group -- Environmental metric group -- CVSS base scoring -- Metrics madness -- Vulnerability management overview -- Capability Maturity Model: vulnerability management - scanning -- Initial phase -- Phase A -- Phase B -- Phase C -- Capability Maturity Model: vulnerability management - reporting -- Initial phase -- Phase A -- Phase B -- Phase C -- Capability Maturity Model: vulnerability management - fix -- Initial phase -- Phase A -- Phase B -- Phase C -- Summary -- Chapter 13: Risky Business -- Risk overview -- Treating risk -- Risk tolerance and risk appetite -- Labeling things platinum, gold, silver, and copper -- Differentiating networks -- Taking a different look at risk -- Review of threat intelligence integration…”

“…CONTENTS Acknowledgments About the Authors Foreword Introduction Part I: It Is All About thePeople 1: A New Middle Class Looking Back One Trick Pony Time Is on Their Side One Last Time Endnotes 2: Asia's Path to Prosperity Coming of Age Outsourcing and Offshoring A Changing World Integration into the Global Economy Lessons Learned Endnotes 3: The Great Comparison India: A Powerful Force Problems Abound Democracy and Growth China: Waking Up Solving Problems The Time Factor Endnotes Part II: RiskyBusiness 4: Power Games Ambiguous Relationships The Dragon and the Eagle Endnotes 5: Straws in the Wind How Long Is the Long Run? …”