From the bestselling author of Team of Teams and My Share of the Task an entirely new way to
understand risk and master the unknown. Retired four-star general Stan McChrystal has lived a
life associated with the deadly risks of combat. From his first day at West Point to his years
in Afghanistan to his efforts helping business leaders navigate a global pandemic McChrystal
has seen how individuals and organizations fail to mitigate risk. Why? Because they focus on
the probability of something happening instead of the interface by which it can be managed. In
this new book General McChrystal offers a battle-tested system for detecting and responding to
risk. Instead of defining risk as a force to predict McChrystal and coauthor Anna Butrico show
that there are in fact ten dimensions of control we can adjust at any given time. By closely
monitoring these controls we can maintain a healthy Risk Immune System that allows us to
effectively anticipate identify analyze and act upon the ever-present possibility that
things will not go as planned. Drawing on examples ranging from military history to the
business world and offering practical exercises to improve preparedness McChrystal
illustrates how these ten factors are always in effect and how by considering them
individuals and organizations can exert mastery over every conceivable sort of risk that they
might face. We may not be able to see the future but with McChrystal's hard-won guidance we
can improve our resistance and build a strong defense against what we know-and what we don't.
