Strategic Risk Leadership

Taylor & Francis

Strategic Risk LeadershipEngaging a World of Risk, Uncertainty, and the Unknown\nAuthor(s): Torben Juul Andersen, Peter C. Young\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367436308, 978-0367436308\nSynopsis\nModern risk management as practiced today faces significant obstacleswe argueprimarily due to the fundamental premise of the concept itself. It asserts that we are mainly dealing with measurable, quantifiable risks and that we can manage the uncontrollable by relying on formal control-based systems, which has produced a general view that (enterprise) risk management is a technical-scientific discipline. Strategic Risk Leadership offers a critique of the status quo, and encourages leaders, executives, and chief risk officers to find fresh approaches that can help them deal more proactively with what the future may hold. \n\nThe book provides an overview of the history of risk management and current risk governance appr.