Michele Wucker
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The author of The Gray Rhino offers a bold new framework for understanding risk in and how we can re-examine and re-shape our relationship with 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 young journalists risk their lives to tell the stories of strangers? Why do some people wait until the last minute to get to the airport while others get...
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English
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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 roosterand a fundamental activity and favorite sport in the cockfight....
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English
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"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...
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Citadel Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
[2021]
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Portuguese
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Um "rinoceronte cinza" é uma ameaça altamente provável, de alto impacto, mas negligenciada: apresentando parentesco tanto com o elefante na sala quanto com o improvável e imprevisível cisne negro. Os rinocerontes cinzentos não são surpresas aleatórias, mas ocorrem após uma série de avisos e evidências visíveis.
A "gray rhino" is a highly probable, imminent threat; we can see the dust cloud on the horizon long before the charging animal...
5) Lockout: why America keeps getting immigration wrong when our prosperity depends on getting it right
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Public Affairs
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c2006
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English