World of risk [[electronic resource] ] : a new approach to global strategy and leadership / / Mark Haynes Daniell

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780716103321
• Autore: Daniell Mark Haynes <1955->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: River Edge, NJ, : World Scientific, c2004
• ISBN: 981-256-005-X
• Edizione: [New world ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (323 p.)
• Classificazione: 71.41
• Disciplina: 658.4/012
• Soggetti: Competition, International; Leadership; Risk; Strategic planning
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: World of Risk - World of Opportunity -- Scale and Nature of the Challenge -- A New Approach to Strategy -- Next Generation Strategies -- Mass Terror - Just Beginning -- Unchecked Global Crime -- The Environment Under Attack -- New Waves of Disease -- The End of Culture? -- Technology and the Cyberworld -- The Growing Global Underclass -- No More Firewalls: The Economic Crises -- Implementing an Integrated Effort -- Leadership and Engagement -- A Message of Hope.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book takes a fresh and critical look at the leading sources of global risk - terrorism, disease, crime, poverty, environmental damage and others - and sets out a practical way to respond far better than we have to each risk area.Drawing from his state-of-the-art knowledge of global strategy as applied in the business world, the author provides analysis, insight, realistic strategies, and hope for a better way forward. His foresight has already been demonstrated. Early in the year 2000, he wrote: "Sadly, the history of mass terrorism is just about to be written. ... Even the US is no longer