Risk Management: Fast Track to Success

Fast Track To Success Risk Management

Keith Baxter

‘Genuinely startling insight into communicating and managing risk.’

Paul Hamilton, Chief Executive, Business Enterprise Solutions, Abu Dhabi

‘Practical, powerful and proven approaches to managing risk in any organisation.’

Peter Ward, Retired Financial Services Partner ATKearney and KPMG

‘… a must read for every business executive. Brings a complex subject down to basics.’ David Spinks, Operational Risk Manager, HP Enterprise Services

‘Keith has been a real authority on risk management, long before it become as topical as it is today. That knowledge really shows in this book.’

Steve Young, Managing Director of IndeGo Consulting

‘… addresses the problems that have haunted risk management for years. The ABCD process really does identify the risks that other risk processes leave behind.’

Terry McKenna MBA MProjMgt PMP, Founder and Managing Consultant at www.startprojectmanagement.com

GET THE RESULTS YOU WANT WITH BETTER RISK MANAGEMENT. FAST.

Business today is highly competitive and the general imperative is: better, faster, cheaper. With this imperative comes risk – lots of it. And if the risk is not managed effectively the results are poor, slow and expensive. Managing risks, and conversely, taking opportunities, will have a big impact on both the bottom and the top line for your business. Fast Track to Success: Risk Management will teach you the key skills you need to excel in risk management and at the same time accelerate your career development. It includes:

• Risk Management in a nutshell - a series of FAQs to give you a concise overview of the subject
• The top 10 tools and techniques you can use to help you develop your approach to risk management
• Simple checklists to help you identify the strengths and weaknesses of your capabilities and those of your team
• Advice on leading your team – how to decide your leadership style and build your team
• Tips on how to progress your career, whether it’s your first 10 weeks in the job or whether you’re looking to get right to the top

Don’t get left behind, set out on the Fast Track today. For more resources, log on to the series website at www.fast-track-me.com.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO ACCELERATE YOUR CAREER

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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO ACCELERATE YOUR CAREER

The Fast Track books provide you with a complete resource to get ahead as a manager – faster. Specially designed to help you develop the skills you need to fast track your career, each book is broken down into four key areas:

• Awareness - find out where you are now and what you need to do to improve
• Business building - the tools and techniques used by high performance teams
• Career development - the steps you should take now if you want to get ahead
• Director’s toolkit - tips to get you to the top. And make sure you stay there!

Fast Track features include:

• The Fast Track Top 10 – a summary of the information you need to shine
• Quick Tips and answers to FAQs
• Real-life case stories
• Practical career guidance - includes a framework of objectives for your first 10 weeks in a new role
• Expert Voices –the state of the art view from today’s leading experts

www.Fast-Track-Me.com is a highly interactive resource, custom-designed to complement the books in this bestselling series – log on now to get on the Fast Track today.

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KEITH BAXTER is an internationally renowned risk management expert who has specialised in the field for over 20 years.

In the early part of his career, Keith worked on a number of very large defence programmes that all went very wrong. Intrigued by the management failures that seemed to happen repeatedly, he started to focus on how risk management could avoid these disasters. His frustration with traditional risk management approaches led to the development of the ABCD risk management process and associated tools.

In the 1990s, with the management consultants AT Kearney, Keith applied ABCD-based techniques to virtually every industry and on every continent (apart from Antarctica). In 2000, Keith founded De-RISK as an organisation that provides Enterprise Risk Management solutions based on the ABCD process and Assure web-based toolset.

A regular on the risk management conference circuit and frequently published in leading journals, this is his first book and the first book to be published that covers the ABCD methodology.

For recreation he likes to apply risk management to a variety of risky pursuits that tend to involve climbing up or riding down mountains.