"Are We Willing to Take that Risk? "

Here's a preview from the front flap of the book jacket:

Let’s not kid ourselves, Michael Croy says. No one will ever be able to identify and manage all of his or her organization’s risks. While you can’t insulate from every risk, anything to improve awareness and management of risks is worth examining. And truly every element must be evaluated with regard to the others to determine acceptable risk and appropriate strategies for addressing it. Understanding this can mean the difference between proactively managing risk and morphing into Chicken Little when the company is facing a crisis.

Are We Willing To Take That Risk? draws on Croy’s career in the business continuity industry. By encouraging executives to think about what could affect their companies – lost data, pandemic, a terror threat – and putting some plans in place for when something does happen, they’ll know their employees will still have jobs, their customers can still get product, their shareholders will still support the company stock.

Effective business continuity planning and execution relies on leaders throughout the organization to have the confidence to ask, “Are we willing to take that risk?”  The most successful business continuity program is not the responsibility of a few, but is owned by all, from the boardroom to every corner of the company.