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Pros
This book shares the gifts she brings – in hopes that you too will see farther forward, with more clarity, garnering the will to act. Should be in boardrooms and classrooms galore. These nuggets alone would provide a solid framework for an mba-level c... Read More
The gray rhino, a unique species of rhino created for this book, is a powerful metaphor for our life’s decisions in the face of obvious threats. There are excellent anecdotes illustrating both those who have recognized and capitalized on these crises,... Read More
Wucker presents a plan for recognizing and avoiding the many gray rhinos threatening us on a global level, in business, and even our personal lives. From the financial crisis of the last decade that destroyed billions in wealth to the growing scarcity... Read More
Cons
Trying to outrun the rhinoceros is futile, and actually makes it easier for him to gore you. Consultants cite gray rhinos to get paid.
Before the pedestrian brouhaha, a man was killed by a bicycle delivery guy riding on the sidewalk. Bubble profiteer with money to spend is always more welcome in washington than sober analysts asking for funds and setting out hard choices that hurt vo... Read More
Michele wucker's the gray rhino is an abysmal failure of a book. Wucker is unable to recognize the so-called 'gray rhino' that is charging at her.
The incessant cry to “do something, anything’ is counterproductive. This is precisely the reaction that penalizes real leaders and puts people in charge who reflexively avoid all hard choices.
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Quality
But on the whole wucker’s attempt to teach how to spot and deal with the possibility of gray rhino in your business or even per... Read More
Definitely adding this one to my collection of high quality leadership resources
The book uses an allegory of a grey rhino to explain the organizational lethargy and muddled behavior when faced with the selfe... Read More
Her prescriptions for dealing with the threats that are global in nature are in many ways as applicable to our own individual e... Read More
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This is not entertainment or the latest harry potter but there certainly are enough anecdotes of blind hubris well punished to satisfy anyones hunger for shadenfreude at the expense of people who should have known better
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Facing danger and possible trouble wont make everything perfect
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In a simple and understandable way the author describes the crisis situations possible ways to handle the situation and also how mistakes are committed to handling such a situation
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From the financial crisis of the last decade that destroyed billions in wealth to the growing scarcity of water she offers a field guide to the gray rhinos—wucker’s term for a highimpact utterly foreseeable events—of past and present
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And it isn’t all economics or geopolitics either
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It’s not about the wouldacouldashoulda’s
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The gray rhino is an incredibly eyeopening book
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I was surprised to find my topic the gender gap to be categorized as a metarhino but grateful that it wasnt in the conundrum and gordian knot category