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Reading recommendations on risk management: A roundup of top texts

Keep this list of top risk management books on hand when planning your next leadership book club

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This is the final installment in a year-long series where I have shared my top risk management reading recommendations. These are the books I review regularly regarding the discipline of risk management and related issues. Each of these gives you hints on how to recognize, prioritize and mobilize solutions for the risks you face in your organization.

I previously shared some tips for making notes and summarizing key points from the books I read, as well as some recommendations for other publications that will help you keep up with trends.

To wrap up this series, here’s a list of all the books I have discussed to date compiled for easy review when looking for the next candidate for your leadership book club or adding to your Amazon wish list!

ADAPT: WHY SUCCESS ALWAYS STARTS WITH FAILURE

By Tim Harford

AGAINST THE TIDE: RICKOVER’S LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES AND THE RISE OF THE NUCLEAR NAVY

By Rear Admiral Dave Oliver (Ret.)

AN ECONOMIST WALKS INTO A BROTHEL: AND OTHER UNEXPECTED PLACES TO UNDERSTAND RISK

By Alison Schrager

BLUE ON BLUE: AN INSIDER’S STORY OF GOOD COPS CATCHING BAD COPS

By Charles Campisi

BLUE THREAT: TO ERR IS INHUMAN

By Tony Kern

BOWLING ALONE: THE COLLAPSE AND REVIVAL OF AMERICAN COMMUNITY

By Robert Putnam

CAREFUL: A USER’S GUIDE TO OUR INJURY-PRONE MINDS

By Steve Casner

DEAD WAKE: THE LAST CROSSING OF THE LUSITANIA

By Erik Larson

DEEP SURVIVAL: WHO LIVES, WHO DIES AND WHY

By Laurence Gonzales

DISASTROUS DECISIONS

By Andrew Hopkins

FIELD COMMAND

By Charles “Sid” Heal

FLIRTING WITH DISASTER: WHY ACCIDENTS ARE RARELY ACCIDENTAL

By Marc Gerstein

HOW WE DECIDE

By Jonah Lehrer

INVITING DISASTER: LESSONS FROM THE EDGE OF TECHNOLOGY

By James Chiles

JUST CULTURE: RESTORING TRUST AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN YOUR ORGANIZATION

By Sidney Dekker

LOONSHOTS: HOW TO NURTURE THE CRAZY IDEAS THAT WIN WARS, CURE DISEASES, AND TRANSFORM INDUSTRIES

By Safi Bahcall

MANAGING THE UNEXPECTED: RESILIENT PERFORMANCE IN AN AGE OF UNCERTAINTY

By Karl E. Weick and Kathleen M. Sutcliffe

MELTDOWN: WHY OUR SYSTEMS FAIL AND WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT

By Chris Clearfield and Andras Tilcsik

SAFETY IN THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY

By O.P. Kharbanda and E.A. Stallworthy

SIX FRIGATES: THE EPIC HISTORY OF THE FOUNDING OF THE U.S. NAVY

By Ian W. Toll

THE BLACK SWAN: THE IMPACT OF THE HIGHLY IMPROBABLE

By Nassim Nicholas Taleb

THE CHECKLIST MANIFESTO: HOW TO GET THINGS RIGHT

By Atul Gawande

THE GRAY RHINO: HOW TO RECOGNIZE AND ACT ON THE OBVIOUS DANGERS WE IGNORE

By Michele Wucker

THE IMPULSE FACTOR: WHY SOME OF US PLAY IT SAFE AND OTHERS RISK IT ALL

By Nick Tasler

THE M FACTOR: HOW THE MILLENNIAL GENERATION IS ROCKING THE WORKPLACE

By Lynne Lancaster and David Stillman

THE NEXT 100 YEARS: A FORECAST FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

By George Friedman

THE POWER OF HABIT: WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO IN LIFE AND BUSINESS

By Charles Duhigg

THE UNTHINKABLE: WHO SURVIVES WHEN DISASTER STRIKES – AND WHY

By Amanda Ripley

THE WORLD IS FLAT: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

By Thomas Friedman

THINK LIKE A FREAK

By Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner

THINKING, FAST AND SLOW

By Daniel Kahneman

UNACCOUNTABLE: WHAT HOSPITALS WON’T TELL YOU AND HOW TRANSPARENCY CAN REVOLUTIONIZE HEALTHCARE

By Dr. Marty Markary

UNBROKEN: A WORLD WAR II STORY OF SURVIVAL, RESILIENCE, AND REDEMPTION

By Laura Hillenbrand

UPSTREAM: THE QUEST TO SOLVE PROBLEMS BEFORE THEY HAPPEN

By Dan Heath

WAIT: THE ART AND SCIENCE OF DELAY

By Frank Partnoy

WARNINGS UNHEEDED: TWIN TRAGEDIES AT FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE

By Andy Brown

WHY THINGS BREAK: UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD BY THE WAY IT COMES APART

By Mark Eberhart

WILLFUL BLINDNESS: WHY WE IGNORE THE OBVIOUS AT OUR PERIL

By Margaret Heffernan

That’s it for this series. Let me know what you think of these books and share your leadership and risk management reading recommendations. Email editor@police1.com.

Gordon Graham has been actively involved in law enforcement since 1973. He spent nearly 10 years as a very active motorcycle officer while also attending Cal State Long Beach to achieve his teaching credential, USC to do his graduate work in Safety and Systems Management with an emphasis on Risk Management, and Western State University to obtain his law degree. In 1982 he was promoted to sergeant and also admitted to the California State Bar and immediately opened his law offices in Los Angeles.

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