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  • Published: 1 January 2018
  • ISBN: 9781576752463
  • Imprint: Berrett-Koehler
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 216
  • RRP: $32.99

Right Risk

10 Powerful Principles for Taking Giant Leaps with Your Life



Risks are a part of a fully-lived life—and are essential for personal and professional advancement. Right Risk draws on the experiences and insights of successful risk-takers (including the author’s own experiences as a daredevil high diver) to detail ten principles you can use to take risks with greater intelligence and confidence.

Right Risk is about taking more deliberate and intentional risks. It will teach you how to determine which risks to take and which to avoid, how to balance the need to take more risks with the need to preserve your safety, and how to confront all those people who tell you what a mistake it would be to take the risk.

Right Risk will teach you to make wise and courageous choices—to confidently face life’s challenges and take advantage of life’s opportunities. It will help you become more comfortable with the uncomfortable, more courageous in facing fear, and more prepared to take the risks you’ve always wanted to take. It will help you take the giant leaps you’ve been dreaming of.

  • Published: 1 January 2018
  • ISBN: 9781576752463
  • Imprint: Berrett-Koehler
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 216
  • RRP: $32.99

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Praise for Right Risk

Right Risk gives a compelling and practical analysis of how both wisdom and courage are needed and flow from the integrity of following a principle-centered internal compass. —Dr. Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Right Risk is truly a book for our times. Treasurer has provided ten principles for taking the risk of living a more courageous, more fulfilling, and ultimately more relevant life. Bravo. —Ken Blanchard, coauthor, The One Minute Manager® and Whale Done! To live is to risk and to risk is to live. Former professional diver Bill Treasurer’s book offers a captivating read and sound advice for wisely embracing risk in your life. I recommend that you dive right in and read Right Risk at your earliest opportunity. —Charles C. Manz, author of The Power of Failure and Emotional Discipline: The Power to Choose How You Feel Get ready for a big return on your investment. Bill Treasurer is the right teacher, for the right time, to help us get it right about Right Risk-taking. . . .he has captured the right insights about risk-taking that we can all understand and apply to our own lives. —Larry Wilson, founder of the Wilson Learning Group and The Pecos River Learning Centers, author of Play to Win How we handle risk is a key to so much else in our lives. Whether we do so in a way that is reckless or far-sighted, timid or courageous, selfish or altruistic, will play a central role in our own successes and failures—as well as strongly affecting the lives of others. In particular, which risks we choose to take and which to avoid, can be of crucial importance. Bill Treasurer tackles the practice of risk-taking head on in a book bristling with enthralling anecdotes, intriguing information, and, most importantly, practical advice. Don’t pick up this book unless you have a couple of hours to spare—because once you start to read, you will be unable to put it down. And when you have finished, you will have gained important insights that will be of real use in your daily life. Right Risk is right on. —Michael J. Apter, Ph.D., author of The Dangerous Edge, and Director, Apter International, Inc. I don’t know anyone who lives a risk-free life so I can’t think of anyone who would not find immediate value in this superb book on the truths and myths of positive risk-taking. Bill Treasurer uses his high-diving youth and life as an executive coach and transforms it into a hundred-foot-high plat- form of wisdom for us all. —John Shuster, author, Answering Your Call Right Risk is right on. This wonderful book captured my total attention on the first page. I read it in one sitting and ordered copies for my friends. A great read written by a risk- taking, humble man. —Charlie Eitel, Chairman & CEO, The Simmons Company Right Risk provides the first practical approach to making the most of one’s self through not allowing yourself to become paralyzed by self-doubt and fear of failure. Treasurer not only speaks from real experience, but also shares the important successful risk-taking experiences of others that he encountered in business, in sport, and in his personal life! —Bob Carr, President of Executive Adventure Bill shows us that risk-taking is a skill, an important tool that, used correctly, will guide you toward living . . . not just existing. Even if you’re not facing a risk at this moment, Right Risk can be a valuable weapon to be stored for the future . . . if you think you will not face risks in your future, then you need this book more than anyone. —Dustin Webster, 7 time World Cliff Diving Champion, Acapulco Cliff Diving Champion, RedBull Pro Athlete, and now . . . Right Risker