Was the pandemic a grey rhino or a black swan? Best-selling author, Michele Wucker opined that it was more predictable than people realise. The pandemic should encourage policymakers to pay more attention to other known but poorly managed risks. These include rising inequality, climate change and financial imbalances such as dangerous corporate-debt levels and asset […]
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Release of Chinese Simplified Characters Edition of Your Are What You Risk by Michele Wucker
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Oct
Oct
CITIC Press has released the Chinese simplified characters edition of YOU ARE WHAT YOU RISK: The New Art and Science of Navigating an Uncertain World, published in the US in April by Pegasus books. The Chinese edition, with a preface written for Chinese audience, is part of the Rhino Books imprint created in 2017 for […]
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Michele Wucker is specialist in risk management and crisis anticipation and is author “The Gray Rhino: How to Recognize and Act on the Obvious Dangers We Ignore” and “You Are What You Risk: The New Art and Science of Navigating an Uncertain World”. In a recent interview, Michele took us through the concept of Gray Rhinos […]
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In a recent podcast, Michele Wucker, best-selling author of “the Gray Rhino” and most recently “You Are What You Risk”, talked about risk, decision making and uncertainty with the hosts, and in particular: • Five reasons decision makers have for not addressing problems • Making the “devil’s advocate” more prominent in the decision making process […]
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Michele Wucker publishing new book You Are What You Risk: The New Art and Science of Navigating and Uncertain World
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Michele Wucker, best-selling author of “The Gray Rhino”, will be publishing her new book, “You Are What You Risk: The New Art and Science of Navigating and Uncertain World” on April 6, 2021. What drives a sixty-four-year-old woman to hurl herself over Niagara Falls in a barrel? Why do young journalists risk their lives to […]
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Michele Wucker Spoke on “Learning to Navigate an Uncertain World” at Experiencia IDEA Management
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Dec
Michele Wucker, author of best selling Gray Rhino, spoke on “Learning to Navigate an Uncertain World” at Experiencia IDEA Management and got excellent feedback. “The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted life as we once knew it. The virus has intensified economic inequalities and imbalances, sped up digital disruption, and put a premium on flexibility and smart […]
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TEDTalk speaker and bestselling author Michele Wucker, in her recent conversation with Asian Scientist, answers an important question—Was COVID-19 a gray rhino event? Michele discussed her gray rhino theory with respect to the COVID pandemic, and what gray rhino events we should anticipate in the future. Watch the full interview below: Michele Wucker is an award-wining […]
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The whole world is impacted by the Coronavirus outbreak. Michele Wucker, author of best-seller Gray Rhino, opined that there are strategies to help countries response more promptly. The most important is to identify which stage you are at facing the challenge. In my book, THE GRAY RHINO, I developed a five-stage framework for analyzing responses […]
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Michele Wucker is an author, commentator and policy analyst specializing in the world economy and crisis anticipation. Michele is a global thought leader with three decades of experience in media, finance, and non-profit management and content creation. She is the author of The Gray Rhino: How to Recognize and Act on the Obvious Dangers we […]
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Michele Wucker, author of best-selling book Gray Rhino, spoke in Hangzhou, China at a business conference on how can China’s economy fight against grey rhino in 2019. The audience appreciate Michele’s insights a lot and they had great exchange. Michele Wucker is an award-wining global thought leader who draws on three decades of experience in media […]
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Policy strategist and award-winning global thought leader Michele Wucker delivered a TED Talk on The Gray Rhino—the unpreventable danger that we often choose to ignore. In her talk, Michele urges us to replace the myth of the “black swan” — that rare, unforeseeable, unavoidable catastrophe — with the reality of the “gray rhino”. She shows […]
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Michele Wucker, finance and policy strategist, founder and CEO of Gray Rhino & Company spoke at the TED Salon: Imagine If, a session of talks in partnership with the U.S. Air Force Michele’s big idea was all about replacing the myth of the “black swan” with the reality of a “gray rhino” so we can face […]
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Michele Wucker , author of best-selling book The Gray Rhino, was invited to speak at the ZAOJIU conference in Singapore, on the “uncertainty in the fourth industrial revolution” “Even if you’re just predicting the future, you have the ability to influence the course of events.” What are the obvious, high-probability crisis events that are likely […]
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Michele Wucker was invited to speak in China on her insights on the Gray Rhinos. At this turbulent time, vision on how to identify upcoming dangers is highly appreciated, no wonder Michele is beloved by her fans and readers. Michele Wucker is an award-wining global thought leader who draws on three decades of experience in media […]
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Michele Wucker’s Book “Why the Cocks Fight” Chosen as the Campus Book for the Year by Bronx Community College, CUNY
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Michele Wucker‘s Book “Why the Cocks Fight” Chosen as the Campus Book for the Year by Bronx Community College, CUNY. Michele is invited to give a talk to the students and faculty in Dec 2018. “Why the Cocks Fight” is an especially meaningful book for the students as many of them are Dominican and/or Haitian. […]
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President Xi Jinping Reading Augmented by Brett King & Grey Rhino by Michele Wucker
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Feb
Feb
President Xi Jinping is reading books authored by our speakers, including “Augmented” by Brett King and also “Grey Rhino” by Michele Wucker. This article, gives a quick rundown of the books that can be seen on the president’s bookshelf during his annual New Year’s greeting from his office and two books from our speakers were […]
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