Author: Michele Wucker

Welcome to my new blog, The Horn. Yes, pun intended. A rhino wouldn’t be a rhino without growing a horn. But a horn, in a completely different sense, also is a way to communicate. That’s the way this new blog uses it. I’ll be writing here about the gray rhinos -the obvious but unresolved and often all but ignored threats facing the world, companies, and individuals- and about strategies for dealing with them before they trample us. Posts will include annual reviews of the top global risks compiled and filtered from the best top global risks lists and thinkers. I’ll…

At the end of the third quarter, Europe risks are rising again with Italy’s constitutional referendum, a wobbly pound, and the resumed IMF-EU tug-of-war over Greek debt forgiveness. The danger level in the Middle East is up as well following the collapse of another Syrian cease-fire and dramatic downturn in US-Russia relations.

The 5 Stages of a Gray Rhino from Michele Wucker

Welcome to My Gray Rhino, a new blog featuring behavioral strategies to help you to head off the obvious problems that don’t get the attention you know they should. The image of the bird on the rhino’s tush, taken by a friend on safari, seemed appropriate to me for this blog. That little bird OWNS the rhino. The running theme of this blog is individuals, leaders, and experts who have a thing or to to share about owning your gray rhinos -ideally before you get trampled, but also about learning from experience when you do get trampled. I’ve asked for…

Click on the link to download the Readers Guide to the Gray Rhino, with helpful questions for your book club or class as well as additional resources. Special offer for Educators:  Are you teaching THE GRAY RHINO, LOCKOUT, or WHY THE COCKS FIGHT as required reading in your high school or university course? Would you like a free 20 to 30 minute Q&A session with your students over Skype? If so, please send a copy of your course syllabus to info@thegrayrhino.com, along with the time and day of the week that your class meets and a few suggested days, the number…

This e-book is FREE to subscribers to The Gray Rhino Tracker, our monthly newsletter with useful insights on how to recognize and act on the looming dangers that all too often go ignored or neglected; analysis of the gray rhinos in the news, especially in the global economy; tips on specific strategies to deal with each of the five stages of a gray rhino crisis; links to blog posts you may have missed, and more. The Gray Rhino Tracker is emailed the second Wednesday of each month. Get your own copy by signing up below. Subscribe to The Gray…

Once you start looking at how many crises began with clear but essentially ignored warning signals, it becomes strikingly clear how often we miss opportunities to head off predictable problems.

Predictions may be imperfect, but we do have tools at hand to help us think about what developments are most likely to sideswipe our plans. Every year, analysts compile lists of top risks for investors and policy makers.

The first Top Gray Rhinos list sorts through “top risks” lists to create a comprehensive set of global risks, published on Seeking Alpha PRO. Highlights: European instability still leads top threats to businesses, economies, and markets. The potential for liquidity shocks has risen modestly. Fractures within the European Union Financial market liquidity shocks U.S. political instability and rising nationalist populism Climate change Middle East instability Read more HERE.

Why a Crisis Is Too Late to Pick a Woman to Lead Amid the chaos following the Brexit vote, Theresa May is Britain’s new Prime Minister after her main opponent—also a woman—pulled out of the contest to lead the Conservative Party. In the corporate world, meanwhile, Marissa Mayer, hired in 2012 to turn Yahoo around, announced that the company would be sold to Verizon after her efforts to turn it around failed. It’s no more a coincidence that a country and company in turmoil both looked to women to lead than it is that a last-ditch “Hail Mary Pass” effort…