Taking Risks

Donald Wherung and Kenneth R. Maccrimmon examine how the external factors of leaders lives effect their ability to manage and take risks. Emphasizing the importance of a managers ability and willingness to take risks in their business decisions, Taking Risks reveals how age, education, income, industry, and firm size, among other factors, affect a managers drive to take risks. By far the most authoritative and comprehensive study of risk taking that I have ever seen. Must reading for business executives, social scientists, government officials, management scholars anyone who face real-world pressures of making decisions or seeks to understand the process behind them. James S. Dyer, Foster Parker Centennial Professor of Management and Finance, University of Texas Austin