The Gray Rhino

Author : Michele Wucker
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781466887008

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The Gray Rhino by Michele Wucker Pdf

The #1 English-language bestseller in China--the book that is shaping China's planning and policy for the future. A "gray rhino" is a highly probable, high impact yet neglected threat: kin to both the elephant in the room and the improbable and unforeseeable black swan. Gray rhinos are not random surprises, but occur after a series of warnings and visible evidence. The bursting of the housing bubble in 2008, the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and other natural disasters, the new digital technologies that upended the media world, the fall of the Soviet Union...all were evident well in advance. Why do leaders and decision makers keep failing to address obvious dangers before they spiral out of control? Drawing on her extensive background in policy formation and crisis management, as well as in-depth interviews with leaders from around the world, Michele Wucker shows in The Gray Rhino how to recognize and strategically counter looming high impact threats. Filled with persuasive stories, real-world examples, and practical advice, The Gray Rhino is essential reading for managers, investors, planners, policy makers, and anyone who wants to understand how to profit by avoiding getting trampled.

Author : Michele Wucker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781643136790

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You Are What You Risk by Michele Wucker Pdf

The #1 international bestselling author of The Gray Rhino offers a bold new framework for understanding and re-shaping our relationship with risk and uncertainty to live more productive and successful lives. What drives a sixty-four-year-old woman to hurl herself over Niagara Falls in a barrel? Why do we often create bigger risks than the risks we try to avoid? Why are corporate boards newly worried about risky personal behavior by CEOs? Why are some nations quicker than others to recognize and manage risks like pandemics, technological change, and climate crisis? The answers define each person, organization, and society as distinctively as a fingerprint. Understanding the often-surprising origins of these risk fingerprints can open your eyes, inspire new habits, catalyze innovation and creativity, improve teamwork, and provide a beacon in a world that seems suddenly more uncertain than ever. How you see risk and what you do about it depend on your personality and experiences. How you make these cost-benefit calculations depend on your culture, your values, the people in the room, and even unexpected things like what you’ve eaten recently, the temperature, the music playing, or the fragrance in the air. Being alert to these often-unconscious influences will help you to seize opportunity and avoid danger. You Are What You Risk is a clarion call for an entirely new conversation about our relationship with risk and uncertainty. In this ground-breaking, accessible and eminently timely book, Michele Wucker examines why it’s so important to understand your risk fingerprint and how to make your risk relationship work better in business, life, and the world. Drawing on compelling risk stories around the world and weaving in economics, anthropology, sociology, and psychology research, Wucker bridges the divide between professional and lay risk conversations. She challenges stereotypes about risk attitudes, re-frames how gender and risk are related, and shines new light on generational differences. She shows how the new science of “risk personality” is re-shaping business and finance, how healthy risk ecosystems support economies and societies, and why embracing risk empathy can resolve conflicts. Wucker shares insights, practical tools, and proven strategies that will help you to understand what makes you who you are –and, in turn, to make better choices, both big and small.

Author : LeVar Burton,Susan Schaefer Bernardo,Courtenay Fletcher
Publisher : Reading Rainbow
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780990539513

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Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm by LeVar Burton,Susan Schaefer Bernardo,Courtenay Fletcher Pdf

Actor and longtime educational advocate LeVar Burton has had more than 30 years' experience speaking directly to children about grown-up situations, and The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm is a story that helps ease the fears and worries of a young childMica Mouse lost her house in a terrible storm, and now she trembles when the weather turns rough. She's not so different from other children who've experienced something very disturbing in their life or heard about tragic or frightening events in the news. Mica's father tells her the story of a brave blue rhinoceros who learns how to get through rough times with friendship, helpers, love, and by "feeling your feelings." LeVar Burton has poured a lifetime of experience storytelling to children into The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm, and the result is more than a book—it's a manual for finding the light in the midst of dark times.

Author : Michele Wucker
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781466867888

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Why the Cocks Fight by Michele Wucker Pdf

Like two roosters in a fighting arena, Haiti and the Dominican Republic are encircled by barriers of geography and poverty. They co-inhabit the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, but their histories are as deeply divided as their cultures: one French-speaking and black, one Spanish-speaking and mulatto. Yet, despite their antagonism, the two countries share a national symbol in the rooster--and a fundamental activity and favorite sport in the cockfight. In this book, Michele Wucker asks: "If the symbols that dominate a culture accurately express a nation's character, what kind of a country draws so heavily on images of cockfighting and roosters, birds bred to be aggressive? What does it mean when not one but two countries that are neighbors choose these symbols? Why do the cocks fight, and why do humans watch and glorify them?" Wucker studies the cockfight ritual in considerable detail, focusing as much on the customs and histories of these two nations as on their contemporary lifestyles and politics. Her well-cited and comprehensive volume also explores the relations of each nation toward the United States, which twice invaded both Haiti (in 1915 and 1994) and the Dominican Republic (in 1916 and 1965) during the twentieth century. Just as the owners of gamecocks contrive battles between their birds as a way of playing out human conflicts, Wucker argues, Haitian and Dominican leaders often stir up nationalist disputes and exaggerate their cultural and racial differences as a way of deflecting other kinds of turmoil. Thus Why the Cocks Fight highlights the factors in Caribbean history that still affect Hispaniola today, including the often contradictory policies of the U.S.

Author : Sandra Markle
Publisher : Millbrook Press ™
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781541538047

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The Great Rhino Rescue by Sandra Markle Pdf

Southern white rhinos are in trouble. For years, a rumor has been spreading that their horns can be used to cure cancer, and poachers have been targeting these gentle creatures. Sandra Markle takes readers behind the scenes to see how civilians, volunteer organizations, and African governments are working together to protect rhinos.

Author : Scott Alexander
Publisher : Ramsey Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781937077150

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Rhinoceros Success by Scott Alexander Pdf

Go get the life you want. Be a Rhinoceros! There is something dangerous about this book. Something big. Something full of power, energy and force of will. It could be about you. You could become three tons of thick-skinned, snorting hard-charging rhinoceros. It is time to go get the life you want.

Author : Shusong Ba
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811682094

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The New Cycle and New Finance in China by Shusong Ba Pdf

This book is a selection of research by a Chinese economist who explains China's financial system, as well as predicting the future. The selected 45 articles focus on six topics covering diverse levels: China's macroeconomic and financial system, financial institutions, payment and clearing industry, inclusive finance, urbanization and financial supervision. The book builds a brand overview on China's financial development trend in the past recent years and long term.--

Author : Nicola Davies
Publisher : Tiny Owl Publishing
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1910328642

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Last by Nicola Davies Pdf

Author : Anna Kemp
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481438506

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Rhinos Don't Eat Pancakes by Anna Kemp Pdf

A rhinoceros makes the best kind of friend—and unexpected breakfast guest—in this hilarious and charming picture book from the creators of the bestselling Dogs Don’t Do Ballet. Daisy is eating her breakfast when a big purple rhinoceros strolls into the kitchen—just like that! Then it takes a bite out of her pancake—just like that! Daisy tries to tell her parents, but they’re much too busy to listen. So Daisy starts talking to the rhino instead...until her parents finally take notice of their enormous purple visitor! This funny, heartwarming story from the team who brought you Dogs Don’t Do Ballet is sure to bring a smile to readers who know the ups and downs of busy family life.

Author : Jon Alan
Publisher : Gray Duck Creative Works
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781948052801

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Elephant vs. Rhino by Jon Alan Pdf

It’s fight time for the elephant and the rhino! One animal is The Tusked Titan, and the other animal is The Horned Heavyweight. Both fighters have size on their side. But which one will be crowned champion of the Clash of the Titans?

Author : Sheila McCraith
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781627881777

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Yell Less, Love More by Sheila McCraith Pdf

A guide to happier parenting, featuring daily thoughts, tips, and motivational personal stories to help you toss out the screams and welcome the peace. Do you often find yourself losing your cool and yelling at your kids (or grandkids or students)? It happens to us all, but it doesn’t have to. With Yell Less, Love More, you’ll learn practical, simple solutions to keep you focused on loving more and yelling less, no matter what the circumstance. Take the Orange Rhino 30-day challenge to yell less, organized into thirty short, approachable, and easy-to-follow daily sections—which you can use and adjust in any way that works for you. Whether you have one child or twenty (or one you still yell at who is twenty), strengthen your relationships and maybe even laugh a little more—by taking the challenge today. The Rhino: A naturally calm animal that charges when provoked. The Orange Rhino: A person that parents with warmth and determination and who doesn’t charge with words when angry, impatient, or simply in a bad mood. Yell Less, Love More includes: 100 alternatives to yelling Simple, daily steps to follow Honest stories to inspire Parenting revelations A summarizing chapter of key takeaways, including most frequent triggers and multiple solutions for each of them Trigger-tracking sheets Unlike the preachy, unrealistic, dry, and/or tedious parenting books you’ve read before, Yell Less, Love More is like having a heart-to-heart talk with your best friend. With this warm, colorful, and easy-to-use guide, it is possible to stop yelling and start enjoying a calmer, happier life because of it. Praise for Yell Less, Love More “With wisdom and humor, Sheila quickly becomes an encouraging friend and mentor who gently teaches you how to manage your frustrations while building your self-confidence. You’ll have fun reading this ultimate self-help book and will find yourself turning to it for love, support, and guidance when you fear you may be losing ground.” —Laura Deutsch, co-founder of Mommybites (mommybites.com)

Author : Scott Alexander
Publisher : Rhino Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1981-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0937382019

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Advanced Rhinocerology by Scott Alexander Pdf

Author : Charles Fuge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Animals
ISBN : 1862337152

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I Know a Rhino by Charles Fuge Pdf

A little girl spends the day playing with her animals, having tea with a rhino, spinning with a hippo, and laughing with a giraffe.

Author : Dereck Joubert,Beverly Joubert
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780847868827

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Blood Moon by Dereck Joubert,Beverly Joubert Pdf

Following a lifetime of animal rescue and African wildlife conservation efforts, Beverly and Dereck Joubert raise the alarm to the plight of the rhino. This oversize volume is both a celebration of these magnificent animals and a call to action to save them from vanishing forever. Blood Moon tells the tale of the extraordinary efforts to rescue rhinos from high-poaching zones in South Africa and save the species in secret locations in Botswana. Involving the help of military personnel, planes, helicopters, and private-sector gunboats, this is an action-packed story. The breathtaking images and riveting prose not only capture the never-before-seen rescue of rhinos, but also transcend wildlife publishing to celebrate the life of these elusive animals and the vanishing habitats of Africa. This book takes wildlife imagery to a new level. Here, the striking black-and-white photography is paired with the use of red, which has always been symbolic of wealth in the East, the largest market for rhino horns. Blood Moon is an inspiring demonstration of what humanity can do if we try to turn back extinction. Proceeds from this book benefit the Great Plains Foundation, with a mission to conserve and expand natural habitats in Africa through education programs, community initiatives, and wildlife and environmental stewardship in Botswana, Kenya, and Zimbabwe. Great Plains Conservation and its Foundation manage over 1,000,000 acres of land in sub-Saharan Africa with plans to expand to 5,000,000 acres across a variety of critically important and fragile landscapes throughout Africa.

Author : Colter Jackson
Publisher : Sounds True
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781683648154

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The Rhino Suit by Colter Jackson Pdf

When a little girl feels like the pain of the world is too much, she builds a tough-skinned rhino suit to protect herself. When one little girl sees litter in the streets, an animal without shelter, and the pain of a parent, the weight of the world feels like too much to bear. She feels everything so deeply, it makes her want to hide. One day, when the tenderness and pain of the world feel like they are more than she can handle, she has a grand idea. She decides to build a rhino suit to keep herself safe. Inside the rhino’s armor, the pain of the world is easy for the girl to ignore—but the beauty and joy that the world has to offer are hidden from her, too. And soon, she finds that the rhino suit blocks off her ability to help. Maybe living without thick skin is worth the risk ... With soft and emotive illustrations and a story that will open hearts, The Rhino Suit is about moving from fear to courageousness, from brokenness to wholeness, and from feeling shut down to letting all of life in.