Global Risk: Business Success in Turbulent Times

by Sean Cleary, Thierry Malleret

In today's rapidly changing and increasingly complex business world, successful risk management is the key to survival and success. Risks beyond the control of the firm affect businesses more than ever before, and the fundamental job of executives is to anticipate change and manage it on the basis of an opinion about the future.

288 pages, Hardcover

First published July 15, 2007

About the author

Cleary, Sean 1948-

SEÁN CLEARY graduated in social sciences and law at UCT, UNISA and Shiraz,Iran, and has an MBA from Henley Management College, Brunel University, UK. He was a diplomat from 1970 to 1985, serving in Tehran, Washington DC and the western USA, and as chief director in Namibia (1983-85); as well as in the economics and financial division and as head of the training division of the Department of Foreign Affairs. For the past twenty years he has been a director of companies, a visiting lecturer in global corporate strategy, economic development and conflict resolution at business schools, universities and institutes in South Africa, Europe and the USA, and a board member of a number of nonprofit foundations. He is a fellow and strategic adviser to the executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, and a member of the faculty of the Parmenides Foundation. His family home is in Constantia, Cape Town.