<DIV>Too many executives think risk management is strictly for technical specialists. In Risk Intelligence: Learning to Manage What We Don't Know, David Apgar challenges this misconception. The author explains how to raise the quality of your risk analysis?-thus enhancing your ?risk IQ”?-by applying four simple rules:<br>1) Recognize which risks are learnable?and reduce their uncertainty by discovering more about them.<br>2) Identify risks you can learn about the fastest. The higher your learning speed, the more a project is worth pursuing.<br>3) Take on risky projects one at a time?learning about the risks underlying each before moving to the next.<br>4) Build networks of business partners, suppliers, and customers who can collectively manage new ventures' risks by playing distinct roles.<br><BR>The book provides two tools for improving your risk IQ?the Risk Intelligence Audit and the Risk Scorecard?and concludes with a 10-step action plan for systematically raising your managerial and organizational risk IQ. Your reward? Smarter business decisions over time.</DIV>