Christian Hunt interviewed Michele Wucker on the Human Risk Podcast April 21, 2021. What’s the biggest risk you’ve ever taken? The answer to that question will tell you a lot about your own Risk Fingerprint. That’s the term that guest Michele Wucker uses to describe our individual approaches to risk. Michele is the author of The Gray Rhino and she’s just published a brand new book called “You Are What You Risk,” which explores this topic. The discussion explores the Gray Rhinos and then moves into talk about how our perspective on risk, defines who we are. LISTEN HERE or…
Author: The Gray Rhino
Chicago media personality Amy Guth moderates a conversation with Gray Rhino & Company CEO Michele Wucker about her new book, YOU ARE WHAT YOU RISK: The New Art and Science of Navigating an Uncertain World, for the Chicago launch at independent bookstore The Book Cellar, in partnership with Institute for Work and the Economy, Chicago Global Shapers, Human Citizen Workplace, and The Authors Guild Chicago Chapter. They are joined by Chicago-based interviewees Agam Arora, Peter Creticos, Jermikko, and Genevieve Thiers. Watch here:
Ian Smith of the Financial Times quoted Gray Rhino & Company Founder and CEO Michele Wucker April 14, 2021 in the article, “Risk specialists draw lessons from Greensill saga.” The article analyzed the collapse of supply-chain finance provider Greensill Capital, after it suddenly lost insurance coverage, which created a domino effect. “Companies need to ‘create a situation where there is not a bottleneck, where it is not if one insurer pulls out, everything is over,’ says Michele Wucker, author of You Are What You Risk, a study of risk published last week in the US. ‘Diversification of your insurance coverage, diversification…
Gray Rhino & Company CEO Michele Wucker participated in a recent FlexJobs webinar on Risk and the Future of Work: How to Thrive Amid Uncertainty with FlexJobs CEO Sara Sutton and Deskpass CoFounder and Chief Community Officer Nicole Vasquez, on April 8, 2021. The webinar continued a conversation from Wucker’s new book, YOU ARE WHAT YOU RISK: The New Art and Science of Navigating an Uncertain World, in which she interviewed both Sutton and Vasquez.
The BBC’s Dhruti Shah reported on “Five animals to spot in a post-Covid financial jungle” including, of course, the gray rhino.
The book THE GRAY RHINO inspired a lyric in the hit single “Blue & Grey” by the global K-pop phenomenon BTS released with its album BE in November 2020. BTS, which is known for smashing music records and bringing needed attention to under-appreciated issues, shone a full-on spotlight on mental health with “BE.” Vox called the release “essential pandemic pop.” The hit singles “Life Goes On” and “Blue & Grey” (which Rolling Stone called the album’s standout song) in particular refer to the pain of depression and loneliness during lockdown but offer a message of hope: we can get through this and…
Selected media coverage from 2020 of Michele Wucker and gray rhino theory
In a wide-ranging conversation, Michele Wucker spoke with the inimitable Aidan McCullen for Episode 242 of the popular Innovation Show podcast, posted October 8, 2020. Listen via your favorite podcast delivery channel:Web https://bit.ly/2FwsOJwSoundcloud https://lnkd.in/gBbTTuFSpotify https://spoti.fi/2rXnAF4iTunes https://apple.co/2gFvFbOTunein https://bit.ly/2rRwDadiHeart https://bit.ly/2E4fhfl Or watch below:
Michele Wucker wrote Lessons from COVID-19 about communicating risk for strategy+business magazine September 15, 2020. “COVID-19 messaging provides an object lesson in how — and how not — to communicate in a way that gets people to recognize the nature of a threat and to act in ways that reduce risks to themselves and others,” she wrote. READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE.
Catch up with Gray Rhino & Company CEO Michele Wucker by listening to the recent podcast interviews she’s done focused on the COVID-19 pandemic and its financial consequences. Here are links and short descriptions: Moneywise GuysDavid Anderson and Sherod White, KERN Talk Radio/Moneywise Guys, June 30, 2020David and Sherod talk with THE GRAY RHINO author Michele Wucker about why you should be wary of the surge in the markets, and how you can keep from getting trampled when the bull market turns to a bear. Would You Know If a Gray Rhino Was Coming at You?Jim Blasingame, The Small Business…