Gray Rhino & Company Founder and CEO Michele Wucker has been in high demand for commentary on why so many pandemic warnings went unheeded and what we need to look for coming down the road including debt crisis. Here’s a compilation of recent video appearances. Leadership Insights Episode 024Brough Leadership Institute (South Africa)Conversation with Andy BroughJuly 8, 2020 An Insolvent World: Can We Avoid a Global Debt Crisis?UN Global Compact Leadership SummitPanel with Navid Hanif, Director of Financing for Sustainable Development Office United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA); Shari Spiegel, Chief of Policy Analysis & Development Branch, UN…
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BOMA France presented Michele Wucker in conversation with Michel Levy Provençal and Cindy Chin on June 24, 2020. Watch the highlights below:
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Michele Wucker wrote “Why managing uncertainty is a key leadership skill” for strategy+business, published June 10, 2020. “As it brutally disrupts life and business as we know it, COVID-19 has brought into sharp relief a crucial business skill: the ability to navigate uncertainty,” she wrote. “That means knowing what you can control and what you cannot, aligning your company and employees with a shared purpose, holding to a clear vision of where you want the company to be, and trusting your team to help get there. Today’s economy is a real-life laboratory, an environment that supports the conclusion of a…
“Unlike the black swan that appears only in hindsight, grey rhino theory is forward-looking. It is about actively seeing what’s in front of us and challenging ourselves to act,” Michele Wucker wrote in “To avoid the next pandemic, you need to know the difference between a black swan and a grey rhino,” published in The National April 23, 2020. “Instead of focusing mainly on why problems are not readily solvable, our priority needs to be on what it takes, from governments and civil society, to head off grey rhinos. The solution begins with a reset of expectations.” Read the full…
Michele Wucker was a guest on Dr Pele Raymond’s podcast, Profitable Happiness™ Episode 108, posted February 7, 2020. Listen on Apple Podcasts HERE on Stitcher HERE on Google Play HERE or on Spotify HERE.
China must be on guard against highly improbable, unimaginable “black swan” events while also fending off highly probable but often neglected “gray rhino” risks, Chinese President Xi Jinping told senior Communist Party officials at the opening ceremony of a study session at the Party School of the CPC Central Committee January 21, 2019. Xi spoke shortly after newly released economic data showed that in 2018 China’s economy had slowed to the lowest rate in 28 years. “In the face of a turbulent international situation, a complex and sensitive environment, and the arduous task of reform … We must be highly vigilant against…
Understanding people’s tolerance for and approach to risk can help companies build teams and improve decision making, Gray Rhino & Company CEO Michele Wucker writes in her latest strategy+business column, “The new behavioral science of risk taking in business,” published October 9, 2019. There’s something of a bull market in understanding attitudes toward risk. Last decade’s financial crisis spawned a slew of platforms — Riskalyze, FinaMetrica, Tolerisk, and a rapidly growing list of competitors — that seek to understand people’s tolerance for financial risk. It is now common for financial advisors to ask clients a set of questions about how…
Why do we often neglect big problems, like the financial crisis and climate change, until it’s too late? Policy strategist Michele Wucker urges us to replace the myth of the “black swan” — that rare, unforeseeable, unavoidable catastrophe — with the reality of the “gray rhino,” the preventable danger that we choose to ignore. In this TED Talk, she shows why predictable crises catch us by surprise — and lays out some signs that there may be a charging rhino in your life right now. This talk was presented at an official TED Salon event February 1, 2019, and was…
Gray Rhino & Company CEO Michele Wucker spoke in Singapore January 20, 2019, at ZAOJIU’s conference, “Ascertaining the Uncertainties,” focusing on technology and disruption. Watch the speech on Youtube: