Feb 19, 2021
Michele Wucker is specialist in risk management and crisis
anticipation and is author of the book “The Gray Rhino: How to
Recognize and Act on the Obvious Dangers We Ignore”. While we’ve
all become familiar with Taleb’s concept of Black Swans, we must
equally become intimately aquatinted with Wucker’s Gray Rhinos as
they provide more obvious opportunities for actually anticipating
and managing risk.
During this interview, Michele takes us through the concept of
Gray Rhinos with real-world historical examples, discussion of
future Gray Rhinos, and strategies for engaging in real actions to
identify, respond to, and mitigate future Gray Rhinos in business,
society, and global affairs. The concept of a Gray Rhino is hugely
important and has become embedded in how we evaluate risks at OODA
with our customers.
More about Michele
Applying three decades of global experience in media, finance, and
non-profit management and content creation, I help decision makers
take a fresh look at and improve their strategies for confronting
obvious but under-addressed business and policy challenges. My next
book is YOU ARE WHAT YOU RISK: The New Art and Science of
Navigating an Uncertain World (Pegasus Books, April 2021).
YOU ARE WHAT YOU RISK is a sequel of sorts to THE GRAY RHINO:
How to Recognize and Act on the Obvious Dangers We Ignore (St
Martin’s Press 2016), an international bestseller with translations
published in Hungary, Korea, China, Taiwan, Norway, and forthcoming
in Brazil. It has been highly influential in Chinese financial risk
policy. I also am the author of LOCKOUT: Why America Keeps Getting
Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting It Right
(Public Affairs, 2006) and WHY THE COCKS FIGHT: Dominicans,
Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola (FSG/Hill & Wang,
1999), a social and political history of the Dominican Republic’s
turbulent relationship with Haiti and the United States.
Specialties: risk management, crisis anticipation, global
finance, global economic trends, global risk, debt crisis, global
immigration trends, economic impact of immigration, citizenship
regimes, China, Latin America, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Europe,
emerging markets, leadership, women.
More Information:
The Gray Rhino: How to
Recognize and Act on the Obvious Dangers We Ignore
You Are What You Risk: The New
Art and Science of Navigating an Uncertain World
