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<p><b>Is your business playing it safe—or taking the right risks?</b></p> <p>If you read nothing else on managing risk, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of <b>Harvard Business Review</b> articles and selected the most important ones to help your company make smart decisions and thrive, even when the future is unclear.</p> <p>This book will inspire you to:</p> <ul> <li>Avoid the most common errors in risk management</li> <li>Understand the three distinct categories of risk and tailor your risk-management processes accordingly</li> <li>Embrace uncertainty as a key element of breakthrough innovation</li> <li>Adopt best practices for mitigating political threats</li> <li>Upgrade your organization's forecasting capabilities to gain a competitive edge</li> <li>Detect and neutralize cyberattacks originating inside your company</li> </ul> <p>This collection of articles includes "Managing Risks: A New Framework," by Robert S. Kaplan and Anette Mikes; "How to Build Risk into Your Business Model," by Karan Girotra and Serguei Netessine; "The Six Mistakes Executives Make in Risk Management," by Nassim N. Taleb, Daniel G. Goldstein, and Mark W. Spitznagel; "From Superstorms to Factory Fires: Managing Unpredictable Supply-Chain Disruptions," by David Simchi-Levi, William Schmidt, and Yehua Wei; "Is It Real? Can We Win? Is It Worth Doing?: Managing Risk and Reward in an Innovation Portfolio," by George S. Day; "Superforecasting: How to Upgrade Your Company's Judgment," by Paul J. H. Schoemaker and Philip E. Tetlock; "Managing 21st-Century Political Risk," by Condoleezza Rice and Amy Zegart; "How to Scandal-Proof Your Company," by Paul Healy and George Serafeim; "Beating the Odds When You Launch a New Venture," by Clark Gilbert and Matthew Eyring; "The Danger from Within," by David M. Upton and Sadie Creese; and "Future-Proof Your Climate Strategy," by Joseph E. Aldy and Gianfranco Gianfrate.</p>